Tracking deployment and maintenance activity in time series
We use a variety of tools to collect and visualize data about our infrastructure: Telegraf for data collection, InfluxDB for metrics storage, and Grafana for...
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The XY Problem, or how to stay out of tech support purgatory
Have you ever been on the giving or receiving end of a marathon troubleshooting session? One that kept everyone going in circles for days, until someone fina...
Using Ansible to audit configuration drift in a brownfield environment
When adopting tool like Ansible for configuration management, one big challenge is that you are often starting in a brownfield environment- namely, one that ...
Creative abuse of vars_prompt, for user-friendly playbooks without Tower
Ansible’s CLI wizard: vars_prompt
Disable the seek bar popup (OSD) in Kodi / OpenELEC / LibreELEC
Inspired by this forum post, and other fragmentary how-to’s floating around the internet.