Roles are the most complicated and yet simplest aspect of Ansible to learn. I've mentioned before that Ansible's ad-hoc mode often is overlooked as just a way to learn how to use Ansible. I couldn't ...

Between my ever-expanding IoT gizmo collection and the never-ending VM and LXC images I want to tinker with, I’ve been getting deeper down the automation rabbit hole with each passing week. On the ...

If you need to deploy hundreds of server or client nodes in parallel, maybe on-premises or in the cloud, and you need to configure each and every single one of them, what do you do? How do you do it?

How often do you have to manually apply the same steps when setting up an infrastructure environment for yourself? Being in charge of tens, hundreds, sometimes even thousands of servers also means ...

Many IT teams are moving towards software development standards that improve communication between developers and software users – DevOps tools are usually needed to make these changes. In this ...