Ahmed AbouZaid!

16/12/2015

Now I'm an AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Ahmed AbouZaid 16/12/2015 AWS, Certificate, Cloud Computing Comments

Here we are, now I'm an AWS Certified Solutions Architect :-)

My favorite part in AWS Solutions Architect is "AWS Reference Architecture",

13/12/2015

LibreOffice macro to fix common mistakes with Regex - Python

Ahmed AbouZaid 13/12/2015 LibreOffice, Python, Regex Comments

However I'm a Linux system admin, but I have other activities too. As a technical writer and an author, I work a lot with text, and as usual I always try to automate what can be automated even outside system administration!

23/11/2015

I just got my AWS SysOps Administrator certification

Ahmed AbouZaid 23/11/2015 AWS, Certificate, DevOps, SysAdmin Comments

Last Saturday, I passed AWS SysOps Administrator exam and got the certification :-)

Although I still have concerns about most

14/11/2015

Run playbook starting of a certain task - Ansible

Ahmed AbouZaid 14/11/2015 Ansible, DevOps Comments

Most of the time when people test Ansible playbook or debugging it, I see them run the whole of playbook every time! But one of my preferred ways to do that is "Start and Step".

These options allow you to run playbooks from a

05/11/2015

Trigger click event on elements - Native JavaScript and JQuery

Ahmed AbouZaid 05/11/2015 JavaScript, Tips and Tricks Comments

Maybe I'm a Sysops guy, and don't use JavaScript on a daily basis, but JS became a mandatory language and got an elastic eco-system, so as a power user you may need it from time to time to do some fancy things :D

25/10/2015

Opsview/Nagios as dynamic inventory for Ansible - Python

Ahmed AbouZaid 25/10/2015 Ansible, Nagios/Opsview, Python Comments

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:

Ansible dynamic inventory.
Ansible static inventory (INI-like).
OpenSSH config file.
Pure JSON.

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.

15/10/2015

Getting Started with Ansible - Presentation

Ahmed AbouZaid 15/10/2015 Ansible, DevOps, Presentation Comments

If you looked at the sidebar of this blog, you will find I introduce myself as linux system engineer who is too lazy to do anything manually :D

I have no problem to digging and troubleshooting an issue for hours, or dealing with new technology from zero, but

09/10/2015

Install S3cmd via pip - Ansible

Ahmed AbouZaid 09/10/2015 Ansible, AWS Comments

Recently, I needed to install S3Cmd with some other tools via pip, but I didn't find any Ansible role do that, so I made one "ansible-latest-s3cmd".

02/10/2015

Efficient and quick way to delete files! - Bash

Ahmed AbouZaid 02/10/2015 Bash, Tips and Tricks Comments

On the sidelines of previous post "An efficient and quick way to search with find, grep, and xargs", I've just remembered one of servers has an issue with sessions garbage collection! So, after a while