Tag: ansible
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How Claude Code Ended My Out-of-Hours Waiting Game
Updated:Deploying to sites on the other side of the globe meant staying up out of hours, waiting for a late engineer and an unpredictable Cloudflare tunnel before I could rerun a playbook. Claude Code's first answer was a working cron job. It took two more rounds of pushback before the answer actually fit the problem.
Running Python 3.12 on Ubuntu 18.04 without touching apt
A fleet of field devices stuck on Ubuntu 18.04 and Python 3.6.9 needed a business application requiring Python 3.10+. No OS upgrade, no apt, no compiler, no internet access from the device, and no changes to the system Python - built on the Ansible controller and pushed over the SSH connection already in place.
Ansible on Steroids!
Mitogen Mitogen is a program that miraculously speeds up the remote execution of Python scripts. It also has an Ansible plugin. At first, I thought it look
Linting and Formatting with trunk.io
Updated:With a new job, new place of work, comes new challenges. The first task I set myself was to automate the deployment process for the video analytics softwar
Ansible Vault and Lint Errors
Updated:Using the VS Code plugin for Ansible, I'm getting an internal error when it lints a YAML file. I know the syntax is OK, as I can run an ansible-playbook wi
Lynis Security Auditing
Updated:In the days of corporate lore I faced system hardening challenges driven by Nessus. Now because Nessus isn't FOSS (Free Open Source Software) it's not some
polkit-error-quark
Updated:I caused myself a few hours of frustration today. I installed a new instance of Manjaro today, and it applied some Lynis security suggestions that I didn't
Git Hooks
Updated:I wanted to ensure I wasn't pushing unencrypted data onto our Git repo. It's set as private anyhow, but the repo I'm using is for our Ansible library. It c
Ansible and Linux Mint
Updated:When running an Ansible playbook on a Linux Mint host I found that the variable distribution_release returned the Mint code name of ulyssa . This isn't ver
Upgrading Ansible AWX
Updated:What a frustrating exercise to get to do something so simple! I'm running Ansible AWX 14.1.0 as a local docker install. The installation did all the hard w