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Tag Archives: devops
How to Setup Travis for Quick Ansible Playbook CI
If you’re looking for a quick, easy way to setup repository-based CI for your Ansible playbooks on Github consider Travis CI, it’s also a breeze to set-up for larger projects and not that involved. This takes around 10 minutes to … Continue reading
Automate RPM Builds from Git Sources using COPR
The Fedora project COPR service builds/hosts free RPM package repositories and provides useful automation hooks for your Devopsing. You can combine COPR and any standard Git source (Github, Gitlab, etc) with webhooks for automated package builds when your source repository … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged automate rpm from git, automation, CD, CI, copr, copr git setup, COPR linux rpm, devops, fedora, git, github, packaging, rpm
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Distributed Remote Backups with Git and Etckeeper
Git is a powerful tool for lots of tasks, it makes a wonderful VCS that can drive easy utility and automation. Recently I used git and remote repositories to deploy code & data fanned out to multiple locations. Here are … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged devops, etckeeper, etckeeper linux guide, git, linux, linux git backups, linux git branches, remote, sysadmin
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Quick and Dirty SSH Key Management with Python
Sometimes I need to quickly copy SSH keys to remote systems in a pinch. I can do this with the Ansible authorized_key module but that’s not always available. I might be on a random system and Ansible or external internet … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged ansible copy ssh keys, copy ssh keys python, devops, one-off, python, ssh, ssh keys, tools
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Fun and Automation with Git Hooks
Git is more than just an awesome, decentralized version control system (VCS) – it can also drive lots of useful automation by triggering actions to deploy infrastructure and services based on event and commit-based hooks. You can drive a lot … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged automation, devops, git, git hooks, linux, post-receive hooks, sysadmin
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Automate Infrastructure Docs with Python, WordPress and Foreman
“It’s not done unless it’s documented,” says the wise Ops sage. Frequently updated documentation is critical, it’s also one of the most neglected parts of technology. Learn how we auto-generate server resource wiki data with Python, WordPress and Foreman.
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged automation, devops, documentation, foreman, infrastructure, python, wiki, wordpress
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Automate SuperMicro Server Provisioning or Die Trying
We use Foreman for systems provisioning and recently received a large shipment of Supermicro for Ceph. Out of the box they were a lot of trouble to get integrated/automated at the same level of our Dell gear but we managed, … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged devops, foreman, hardware, ipmi, linux, provisioning, servers, supermicro, sysadmin
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Automate Nagios Monitoring with Ansible
Infrastructure monitoring is important and there’s lots of tools for it. I’m fond of Nagios – it’s very mature and customizable but it’s also a giant pain in the ass to setup. Here’s how to save time deploying and managing … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged ansible, automation, devops, idrac monitoring, ipmi, linux, monitoring, nagios, snmp, supermicro monitoring, sysadmin
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Quick and Dirty Remote Execution with Ansible
Ansible is a wonderful tool for orchestration, configuration management and automating a lot of tasks you’d never want to do by hand. Sometimes you just need to get in there and run a few commands across a bunch of different … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged ansible, devops, linux, remote execution, shell module, sysadmin
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Automate Deployment of the ELK/EFK Stack with Ansible
I recently needed to completely automate deploying a full ELK/EFK stack and clients and didn’t find anything that suited my needs so I wrote the playbooks for this in Ansible. This was my first real foray into automation with Ansible, … Continue reading
Posted in open source, sysadmin
Tagged ansible, automation, devops, elasticsearch, elk, kibana, linux, logging, logstash, sysadmin
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Automating Dell iDRAC Administration with Racadm
Managing more than a handful of Dell servers becomes cumbersome using the iDRAC web interface. This is especially painful with several hundred servers or more. Luckily Dell provides CLI tools you can use with XML templates to automate provisioning and … Continue reading
Create OpenStack Users the Easy Way
When you’ve created more than one OpenStack user via the CLI or Horizon dashboard it gets old really quick. It’s a good idea to automate it or use a tool to do the job for you.
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Tagged automation, cloud, devops, linux, openstack, shell, tool
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