Ansible
Ansible Roles: Reusable Automation Packages
Playbooks get unwieldy fast. What starts as a clean 30-line YAML file turns into a 400-line monster with…
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Automation
Ansible
Ansible Commands and Playbook Cheat Sheet
Ansible commands blur together after a while. You know the module exists, you just can’t remember the exact…
Ansible
Your First Ansible Playbook: Step-by-Step Guide
Managing two servers by hand is tedious. Managing twenty is a full-time job. Ansible playbooks turn that manual…
Ansible
Ansible Inventory Management: Static and Dynamic
Ansible needs to know which servers to manage. That’s the inventory: a mapping of hostnames, IPs, groups, and…
Ansible
Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands: Quick Tasks Without Playbooks
Not everything needs a playbook. Sometimes you need to check disk space across 50 servers, restart a stubborn…
Ansible
Install and Configure Ansible on RHEL and Debian Based Linux
Managing a handful of servers by hand is fine. Past ten or fifteen, you start making mistakes: a…
Ansible
Manage Docker Containers with Ansible (Rocky 10 + Ubuntu 24.04)
Managing Docker on a single host is a script. Managing it on five, twenty, or fifty hosts the…
AI
Generate and Debug Ansible Playbooks with Claude Code
Install a package, template a config, start a service. Ansible playbooks follow a predictable structure, which is exactly…
AI
Deploy Infrastructure with Claude Code and Terraform
You describe a VPC with three subnets, a security group, and an EC2 instance. Sixty seconds later, Claude…
Automation
Configure GitLab CI/CD Variables and Inputs with Real Examples
GitLab CI/CD variables control how pipelines behave. They inject configuration, credentials, and runtime data into your jobs without…
Automation
Upgrade GitLab from 17.x to 18.x: Step-by-Step
GitLab 18 shipped with a hard PostgreSQL 16 requirement, removed the legacy git_data_dirs configuration, and enforced CI/CD job…
Books
Best Puppet and Chef Automation Books for 2026
The configuration management landscape has shifted dramatically toward Ansible in recent years, and the Puppet/Chef book market reflects…