In this post, we are going to see how to add and remove records in AWS route53 DNS using ansible. If you are an AWS architect or a developer/devops executive managing your infrastructure hosted in AWS. you might have used the AWS route53 DNS web service. with route53 you can[...]
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Postfix is a powerful opensource mail server with a lot of customization options available built-in. I recently had a requirement to set up an Organization-wide mail server to perform SMTP relay to Office365 and allow our Java, JS, Python applications to send emails from different office365 email ids based on[...]
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Traefik Loadbalancer is growing in the container and microservices industry as a leader in Loadbalancing, Routing and service management. It has everything that typical load balancers like haproxy provides and a few cooler and advanced features like Auto Service detections and LetsEncrypt SSL integration and SNI support etc. Here is[...]
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Ansible archive module is an ansible way of compressing the file and creating an archive. Just like the tar and gz command working together. If you are a Linux guy you would easily get this analogy. For windows, Just think of this as a normal winzip or WinRAR programs Facts of Ansible archive[...]
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How to list all repositories in BitBucket, the same question I had and when I was searching in the community I found a script and I made some modifications on top of it and sharing it with you all. So, I hope you are all aware that BitBucket has the[...]
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In AWS infrastructure, We create a lot of EC2 instances on demand and we tend to forget about the stopped instances considering that it is stopped and not being billed for. But the fact is that Even the stopped instances would cost you a couple of pennies in various forms[...]
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Ansible template module helps to template a file out to a remote server. Simply put, at runtime ansible template module updates the jinja2 interpolation syntax variables with actual values and copy the template file to the remote server with the specified name. This is most useful for configuration templating and[...]
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PowerShell is a powerful tool and it enables the Windows servers to compete with the Shell and Linux command line features. One of the useful command in linux is tail which helps us to view the file as it gets updated mostly used to view the log files. For instance,[...]
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Ansible Dynamic inventory is a wonderful feature to efficiently manage the entire infrastructure, In an ideal world the list of hosts we have in our infrastructure would not be static, the number of hosts would increase or decrease based on the new instance provisioning and server decommissioning. In this variable[...]
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In this post, we are going to see how to use ansible lookup and how to read file into ansible playbook using ansible file lookup. Purpose of Ansible Lookups When it comes to automation, we handle different types of data and files such as csv, txt and sometimes we might even need[...]
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