Most automation in dev workflows still lives in cron jobs, GitHub Actions YAML, or some glue script you…
Most Jenkins guides target Linux, but FreeBSD handles it just as well. The jenkins-lts package is in the…
ArgoCD watches a Git repository and keeps your Kubernetes cluster in sync with it. That’s GitOps in one…
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Jenkins remains the most widely deployed CI/CD server, with over 300,000 known installations and a plugin ecosystem that…
Standard Ansible runs when you tell it to. Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) flips that model: it watches for events…
Static inventory files work until you have more than a handful of servers. Once VMs spin up and…
Ansible turns a 40-step server setup into a single command. For infrastructure provisioning (VPCs, VMs, cloud resources), pair…
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The first playbook that does one thing to all hosts is satisfying. The second you need different behavior…
Variables are what make Ansible playbooks reusable instead of disposable. Without them, you end up hardcoding hostnames, ports,…
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