I use Ansible however and whenever I have a chance to do, because Ansible rocks! However nowadays I don't use Ansible as a main configuration management tool at work (but SaltStack).
Ansible's "Dynamic inventory" is one of nice features,
In last month I worked on a side project, which is Netbox dynamic inventory script for Ansible.
After I finished 85% of unittest coverage, I moved forward to
SaltStack has a lot of states and modules, an each one has different options, but some times the state/module doesn't support a certain function, so you have to use another
SaltStack has a schedule state that allows you to manage scheduled jobs on client (Minion), and it's very handy to manage cron style job.
But sometimes you could need to run a job once, in other words,
One of things I like in SaltStack is his modules system. It's as simple as Ansible modules.
All what you need is creating a module with
For a reason or another, you maybe have a situation where you need to resolve redirection internally from upstream in Nginx. i.e when you request a
If you manage many of dedicated servers and networks, you will need a "Source of Truth" to do that efficiently. From time to time I try to find a better solution to do that.
So I decided to give "NetBox" a try! But what is NetBox?
In 2023, I wrote about why most, if not all, DevOps learning roadmaps are broken ! In that post, I've emphasized the importan...
