About Me
I teach creative Automation DevOps, Cloud Engineer, System Administrator, and IT Professional to succeed with Ansible Technology to automate more things day after day.

Mission
I teach creative Automation DevOps, helping Cloud Engineers, System Administrators, and IT professionals with Ansible Technology to automate more things successfully every day.
About Luca Berton
Luca Berton is an Ansible Automation Expert who has been working with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and previously worked with the Red Hat Hat Ansible Engineer Team for three years. Published author of the Ansible for VMware by Examples and Ansible for Kubernetes by Examples best-seller of the Ansible By Example(s) practical book series and creator of the Ansible Pilot project. With more than 15 years of experience as a System Administrator, he has strong expertise in Infrastructure Hardening and Automation. Enthusiast of the Open Source supports the community sharing his knowledge in different events of public access. Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Fedora, of course.
The information presented here is not endorsed or supported by my employer. The views and opinions expressed here are my own.
Awards & Recognition
Luca Berton has been active in conferences like Ansible Community Day, Ansible Automates London, and DevConf, fostering knowledge sharing and networking with Ansible enthusiasts. He’s sharing his books and contributions in the community newsletter “The Ansible Bullhorn” to stay updated. Notably, Luca has made significant open-source contributions, addressing issues in repositories such as ansible-lockdown/RHEL9-CIS
, enhancing Ansible’s functionality across various projects, and helping mitigate the RHSB-2021-009 Log4Shell with the Red Hat Security Bulletin team. This collective effort exemplifies the dedication of Luca in the Ansible community to advancing automation and configuration management.
Conferences
- 20 Sep 2023 Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023
- 13 Jul 2023 Ansible Automates London 2023
- 16-18 Jun 2023 DevConf.cz 2023
- 10 Jun 2022 PGMeetUp Bari 2022
- 15 Feb 2022 Ansible Anwendertreffen 2022
- 21 Sep 2021 Ansible Contributor Summit 2021.09
Community
- The Ansible Bullhorn #111 - A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community 1st Aug 2023
- The Ansible Bullhorn #102 - A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community 16th May 2023
- The Ansible Bullhorn #86 - A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community 23 Dec 2022
- Ansible For PostgreSQL - PGMeetUp Bari 2022 - Conference 10 Jun 2022
- Ansible Anwendertreffen - From Zero to Hero: How to build the Ansible Pilot Community - by Luca Berton (Red Hat CZ) 15:15 - 16:00 15 Feb 2022
- Red Hat Ansible Playbook included in RHSB-2021-009 Log4Shell - Remote Code Execution - log4j (CVE-2021-44228) 12 Jan 2022
- AWS Tip Set sysctl kernel parameters — Ansible module sysctl 12 Jan 2022
- The Ansible Bullhorn #41 - A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community 7 Jan 2022
- The Ansible Bullhorn #34 - A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community 17 Sep 2021
Open Source Contributions
- ansible-lockdown/RHEL9-CIS Update README.md #1 28 Jul 2023
- ansible-lockdown/RHEL9-CIS Audit fails with syntax error #77 28 Jul 2023
- ansible-lockdown/RHEL9-CIS Fix 2.2.14 evaluate dnsmasq instead of postfix #69 6 Jul 2023
- ansible/ansible-lint –write mode can’t resolve mount module #3374 27 Apr 2023
- ansible/ansible-builder Specify the –use-pep517 Python parameter #438 30 Dec 2022
- ansible-collections/kubernetes.core Missing documentation for kubernetes.core.k8s_config_resource_name #558 22 Dec 2022
- ansible-collections/ansible.windows win_shutdown #406 29 Aug 2022
- ansible/ansible-builder ValueError: unknown action “extend” #412 25 Aug 2022
- ansible/awx content signing and verification utility #12488 7 Jul 2022
- ansible-collections/community.vmware Create a VMware Virtual Machine with Static IP Address FAIL #1369 24 Jun 2022
- ansible-collections/community.vmware VMware Dynamic Inventory fail #1359 20 Jun 2022
- ansible-collections/community.windows Windows 2022 in-place upgrade #399 25 May 2022
- containers/ansible-podman-collections podman_container volume Permission denied #397 17 Mar 2022
- ansible-collections/community.docker ansible_connection=docker and async poor performance #302 22 Feb 2022
- containers/ansible-podman-collections ansible_connection=podman and async poor performance #382 22 Feb 2022
- linux-system-roles/storage Less verbosity by default #256 21 Feb 2022
- ansible/ansible Weird behavior with environment statement #77071 20 Feb 2022
- ansible/ansible ansible_connection=docker and async are not compatible? #77046 17 Feb 2022
- containers/ansible-podman-collections ansible_connection=podman and async poor performance #382 22 Feb 2022
- ansible-collections/community.docker ansible_connection=docker and async poor performance #302 22 Feb 2022
- linux-system-roles/storage Less verbosity by default #256 21 Feb 2022
- ansible/ansible Weird behavior with environment statement #77071 18 Feb 2022
- ansible-collections/community.general modprobe option for permanent load of modules #4028 12 Jan 2022
- ansible-collections/ansible.windows win_service_info filter by username #330 11 Jan 2022
- ansible-collections/ansible.posix Add RHEL8 library python3-libsemanage #299 24 Dec 2021
- amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2022 [Package Request] - ansible #57 5 Dec 2021
- ansible/ansible “Error while linking: [Errno 95] Operation not supported” with file module and CIFS #76351 23 Nov 2021
- ansible/ansible git module fails using local_action: Host key verification failed, rc: 128 #76158 27 Oct 2021
- RedHatSatellite/satellite-ansible-collection Document host module parameter compute_attributes parameter with volumes_attributes 22 Oct 2021
- ansible/awx Inventory with multiple sources: collision host #11164 29 Sep 2021
- ansible/awx [Backport Request] Hashicorp Vault Credential Plugin : Support for namespace #10734 23 Jul 2021
- RedHatSatellite/satellite-ansible-collection Improve order in content_view_version_cleanup 1 Jul 2021
- ansible/awx created_by null on scheduled job with custom notification #10517 25 Jun 2021
- ansible/awx Activity Stream does not correlate log job runs to corresponding job template #10371 7 Jun 2021
- ansible/awx request_tower_configuration.ps1 problem windows 2012 and 2016 #9434 1 Mar 2021
- freeipa/ansible-freeipa [ipaserver] ansible_freeipa.plugins.module_utils.ansible_ipa_server.spec is None #503 27 Jan 2021
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