DevOps

Introduction In Kubernetes-related automation, it’s common to toggle between NodePort and ClusterIP depending on whether a service should be exposed or not.

Introduction Writing efficient conditional logic in Ansible often means leveraging Jinja2 templating.

As the days count down to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London, I, Luca Berton, am eagerly preparing for my first-ever attendance at this premier Kubernetes and cloud-native event.

🚀 Announcing “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for SysAdmins” Buy on Amazon Buy on BPB I’m excited to announce the release of “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for SysAdmins”, co-authored with Jerome Gotangco!

🔍 Introduction When deploying a Flask web application, it’s best practice to place it behind a reverse proxy to enhance security, enable SSL encryption, and optimize traffic handling.

🔍 Introduction to AIOps In today’s fast-paced digital world, IT operations teams are under immense pressure to maintain uptime, optimize performance, and manage increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments.

🚀 CfgMgmtCamp 2025: Automating AI-Powered Graph Databases with Ansible Yesterday, at CfgMgmtCamp 2025, I had the privilege of presenting Automating AI-Powered Graph Databases with Ansible.

Introduction Modern DevOps practices rely heavily on automation tools to streamline infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.

In the world of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Ansible and Terraform are prominent tools.

Discover the Power of Open Source at FOSDEM 2025 I’m excited to announce that I’ll be attending FOSDEM 2025, the premier open-source software event, held on February 1–2, 2025, at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium.

Optimizing Nested Lists in Ansible Ansible, a powerful IT automation tool, often deals with complex data structures.

Introduction In the world of IT automation, JSON data manipulation is a common task.

Automating depmod Command with Ansible The depmod command in Linux is critical for generating module dependency information, stored in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/modules.

Introduction In the realm of Ansible automation, managing variables effectively can save time and reduce errors.

Red Hat Leads the Pack in G2 Rankings Red Hat, a pioneer in open-source solutions, has once again secured top honors in G2’s peer-reviewed software rankings for 2024.

Watch on Pluralsight As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based solutions for development and testing, optimizing resource usage becomes paramount.

Dynamically constructing and managing data structures is a crucial skill in Ansible automation, especially for tasks that require flexible and reusable configurations.

Understanding the Issue: Breaking Dependencies with Variable Changes Changing a primary variable in a configuration or script can unintentionally break dependent variables or components.

Managing Compliance Drift with Ansible In the fast-paced world of IT operations, maintaining configuration compliance is essential for securing systems and ensuring operational efficiency.

Introduction Managing a large-scale Ansible deployment with 3000 servers can lead to network bottlenecks, extended wait times, and task failures.

Introduction As IT environments scale, automation tools like Ansible face unique performance challenges.

Learn how to configure default SSH credentials for seamless Ansible automation.

Troubleshooting: Configure User Quotas on Ansible Managed Systems Learn how to resolve the common error related to user quota configuration using Ansible.

Troubleshooting: Configure User Quotas on XFS File Systems Using Ansible Learn how to resolve the common error related to user quota configuration on XFS file systems with Ansible.

When writing Ansible playbooks, efficient use of variables is crucial to avoid unintended behavior or collisions.