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Ansible Community Meetup 2024: Updates, Releases, and Networking

The recent Ansible community meetup hosted by Red Hat brought together a diverse group of contributors, developers, and automation enthusiasts from around the world.

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Setting Up Neo4j GenAI Environment on Fedora Using Ansible

Setting Up a Neo4j GenAI Environment on Fedora In this article, we will walk through the steps to set up a Neo4j GenAI Python environment on a Fedora system using Ansible automation.

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Creating Custom Ansible Plugins to Fetch API Data Easily

Introduction Ansible is a powerful automation tool used for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

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Project Policy Validation with OPA and ansible-policy

Introduction There’s a new Ansible feature in town, and I’m thrilled to announce the Ansible Policy utility, which can directly interact with the Open Policy Agent (OPA).

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Ansible Troubleshooting Installation Issues on macOS and Python

Introduction Ansible is a powerful automation tool used by IT professionals to manage and configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero-downtime rolling updates.

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Cleaning the Build Directory in Python

Introduction In the dynamic world of Python development, maintaining a clean and efficient build environment is crucial for project stability and ease of updates.

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Mastering Time in Ansible: An Introduction to the now() Function

Introduction In the realm of IT automation, timing and scheduling tasks are crucial for managing systems efficiently.

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Efficient YouTube Playlist Video Metadata Extraction

Introduction YouTube is a vast repository of videos covering a multitude of topics.

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Custom hello-world Ansible Filter Plugin

Introduction In the world of automation and configuration management, Ansible plays a pivotal role in simplifying complex tasks and orchestrating diverse systems.

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Creating Ansible Collection Using ansible-creator and VS Code Ansible Extension

Introduction Ansible, an open-source automation tool, has become a cornerstone in the world of IT automation and configuration management.

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Mastering Ansible-Creator: Simplify Your Ansible Collection Development

Introduction Ansible, the open-source automation platform, has become an integral part of many IT environments, simplifying complex tasks through the creation and management of Ansible Collections.

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Leveraging Poetry for Efficient Virtual Environment Management

Leveraging Poetry for Efficient Virtual Environment Management In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, managing dependencies and creating a controlled environment for project execution is crucial.

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Ansible troubleshooting - Error markupsafe

Introduction After upgrading Python to version 3.12 on your Mac using Homebrew, you encountered an error when trying to run Ansible: “ERROR: No module named 'markupsafe'”.

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Customizing Ansible: Ansible Module Creation

***Original author: Nikhil Kumar in Customizing Ansible: Ansible Module Creation ***

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Executing Custom Lookup Plugins in the Ansible Automation Platform

Introduction Ansible, an open-source automation tool, offers a wide range of built-in modules and plugins to simplify infrastructure management.

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Improve Playbook Debugging Using Ansible Lint

Introduction Ansible lint is a command-line tool that is crucial in Ansible automation.

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Creating a Custom Ansible Lookup Plugin in Python for Reading a File

Introduction Ansible, a powerful automation tool, offers a wide range of built-in modules and plugins that simplify infrastructure management.

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Creating a Custom Ansible Lookup Plugin in Python for retrieving API token

Introduction Ansible, an open-source automation tool, offers a wide range of built-in modules and plugins to simplify infrastructure management.

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Crafting and Publishing Your Custom Ansible Collection on Automation Hub

Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of automation, creating customized solutions becomes paramount.

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Creating a New Ansible Collection: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction Ansible Collections are a powerful way to organize and distribute your Ansible content, including modules, plugins, roles, and more.

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Creating an Application Load Balancer with Ansible in AWS

Amazon Application Load Balancer (ALB) As applications grow in complexity, they require more sophisticated infrastructure to ensure high availability and scalability.

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Effortlessly Create AWS IAM Users and Store their Access Keys with Ansible

Amazon Identity and Access Management (Amazon IAM) Amazon IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a web service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables you to manage access to AWS resources for users and groups within your organization.

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Create AWS S3 Bucket Using Ansible: Step-by-Step Guide

S3 Bucket AWS S3 bucket is a popular object storage service that offers a cost-effective and scalable solution to store and retrieve large amounts of data.

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Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Instances

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that offers a wide range of services to customers, including computing, storage, and databases, among others.

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Automate EC2 Creation with Ansible: YAML Playbook Demo

Introduction This is an Ansible playbook written in YAML format that automates the creation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and collects the host data.

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