At the beginning of this year while working with Data science team, we had a use case where Apache Flume fits in. But first let me quote this from
07/07/2018
15/05/2018
Test configuration management and infrastructure code - CI
Nowadays infrastructure as code became a de facto! IaC is used intensively in the tech world everyday! And since IaC is just a "code" at the end, so it also needs to be tested to make sure everything is working as expected and
27/03/2018
How contributing to Open-source made me a better DevOps - Presentation
Ahmed AbouZaid
27/03/2018
DevOps, Open-source, Presentation
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Last week, I had a nice session where I talked about how participating in Open-source made me a better DevOps. Which actually started not just as a professional system engineer, but
12/12/2017
Developing Ansible Dynamic Inventory Script - Presentation
Ahmed AbouZaid
12/12/2017
Ansible, DevOps, Presentation
Comments
Last month in Ansible Berlin meetup, I had a session about my experience with writing an external inventory script from scratch for Netbox
11/11/2017
Introduction to InfluxDB and TICK Stack - Presentation
Ahmed AbouZaid
11/11/2017
DevOps, Presentation, TICK stack
Comments
Last week in CrossEngage Academy we had another session. This time it was by me, about my favorite stack so far (after using it for 2 years it's still!), InfluxDB and TICK Stack!
29/10/2017
Netbox dynamic inventory script for Ansible - Python
Ahmed AbouZaid
29/10/2017
Ansible, DevOps, Python
Comments
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,
08/07/2017
Book Summary 02: High Performance Browser Networking - Part3 (HTTP)
Ahmed AbouZaid
08/07/2017
Books, DevOps, Summary
Comments
Last year I started to read this nice book "High Performance Browser Networking", which I really love its slogan "What every web developer should know about Networking and Browser Performance!". So I did part 1 summary first 4 chapters - Networking 101.08/05/2017
Your first PyPI package - Python
Ahmed AbouZaid
08/05/2017
Ansible, DevOps, Python
Comments
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
24/03/2017
Update htpasswd if changed only - SaltStack
Ahmed AbouZaid
24/03/2017
DevOps, SaltStack, Tips and Tricks
Comments
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
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