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25/10/2015

Opsview/Nagios as dynamic inventory for Ansible - Python

Abstract.

I needed to a unified inventory for all servers I manage, so I made a Python script retrieves servers list and ssh ports from Opsview via APIs, and it supports 4 kinds of output formats: You can find it on Github: Opsview as Ansible inventory.
It looks like a hack more than anything else, and most importantly .. it works! :D
And for now it's enough for current needs.
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15/10/2015

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02/10/2015

27/09/2015

Efficient and quick search with find and grep - Bash

When you need to search inside files, as linux user you will think in "grep", but when you try to search in zillion of files (or just thousands), grep isn't the best option for that!

It's very slow especially when you use "-r" option (recursive), even if you are going to use "fgrep" or "grep -F" (--fixed-strings) which interprets patterns as a list of fixed strings), thus it's a little bit faster because it treats the strings literally and doesn't try to parse them with regex.
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05/09/2015

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21/07/2015

CloudU Certificate? good but not for 2015!

Today I got my "CloudU Certificate", after finishing the curriculum. It contains 10 chapters with 10 quizzes and final exam, it's pretty cool, but also it's a little bit old for 2015! However it's still a good refreshment to anyone even for someone already working in the field or intersted to learn about the theory of Cloud Computing.
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01/07/2015

Book Summary 01: High Performance Browser Networking - Part1 (Networking 101)

Recently I started reading "High Performance Browser Networking", and If you ask me, I will say it's a masterpiece! Not just for developers, but also for SysAdmins and DevOps! This summary for first part of this great book, the first 4 chapters cover TCP, UDP, TLS, and networking essentials. Actually, as a system administrator, I've seen a lot of developers do the same mistakes (specially Front-End developers), small mistakes lead to big performance issues! And those mistakes can be fixed with minimum efforts! So I really love this book slogan "What every web developer should know about Networking and Browser Performance!"
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24/06/2015

20/06/2015

Ansible module to list groups in inventory - Python

Update 1/11/2015: I updated the module and made a Github repository "List Ansible inventory groups".

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I'm really in love with Ansible, it's very simple, very handy ... it's Awesome! You can master it in no time at all! Get Started now!

As far as I remember, I've been started using Ansible since v1.7,
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Hello, my name is Ahmed AbouZaid, I'm a passionate Tech Lead DevOps Engineer. 👋

With 16+ years of open-source contributions, 12+ years of professional hands-on experience in DevOps, and an M.Sc. in Data Engineering from Edinburgh Napier University (UK), I enjoy facilitating the growth of both businesses and individuals.

I specialize in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes. I'm also a Free/Open source geek and book author. My favorite topics are DevOps transformation, automation, data, and metrics.

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