So I have been playing with the WriteFreely blog system. To check out if this would work for the use case I was asked about.

I built a vagrant-libvirt setup (using the usual vagrant/libvirt/Ansible approach) as well as a package for openSUSE. The setup uses my package on Leap and Tumbleweed or the upstream binary on a third branch. Another branch will set this up behind a Nginx reverse proxy.

I'll give the package a decent spin and then send it to a devel project to get it into Tumbleweed.

Here you are, have a lot of fun...
https://codeberg.org/johanneskastl/writefreely_vagrant_libvirt_ansible
https://github.com/johanneskastl/writefreely_vagrant_libvirt_ansible

Saturday June 7th, beginning at 10:00 CEST will be an #Ansible meetup in Nieuwegein, Netherlands (very near Utrecht)

Scheduled to appear are Mark Bolwell who will talk about Ansible Lockdown, Felix Fontein remote about SOPS, and John "Gundalow" Barker.

https://www.meetup.com/ansible-benelux/events/307176135/?recId=9fa154cd-68be-488c-bd13-79055758b038

I'll be there as well, but that's beside the point. :)

The best thing about #Ansible documentation is that if you look closely, there's always a later latest.

The URL shown within AWX as being for the documentation of the "Ansible Controller Documentation" points to a fucking cowsay 404

Having fun with the Ghost CMS.

The installation is only supported on Ubuntu. And is tailored to Ubuntu and thus does not recognized Nginx installations on other operating systems.

I put together a vagrant-libvirt setup using Ansible that does the tricky bits itself. Currently supporting AlmaLinux 10, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora 41, see the different branches.

This is a "production" setup of Ghost, i.e. using a MariaDB database instead of sqlite3.

https://codeberg.org/johanneskastl/ghost_vagrant_libvirt_ansible
https://github.com/johanneskastl/ghost_vagrant_libvirt_ansible

Have a lot of fun...

Another day, another vagrant-libvirt setup.

This time for MariaDB, with a server VM and a client VM. As usual, vagrant, libvirt and Ansible do the heavy lifting.

https://codeberg.org/johanneskastl/mariadb_vagrant_libvirt_ansible
https://github.com/johanneskastl/mariadb_vagrant_libvirt_ansible

Have a lot of fun...

The #FreeBSD Foundation just published a short article by Benedict Reuschling on how to use #Sanoid to automate snapshots and backups on FreeBSD. A sample #Ansible playbook is included!

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/zfs-automatic-snapshots-with-sanoid-on-freebsd/

Ich bin mal dem CfP für die #gpn23 @gulasch und @leyrer („Macht Vorträge!“ ) gefolgt:

• #FSFE REUSE: Einfache Lizenz- und Quellenverwaltung für Software-Projekte

• #Ansible Molecule: Automated testing of playbooks & collections

• #Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) mit Firewalling auf Hetzner-Dedicated-Servern betreiben

• openDesk & openCode: wie Deutschland etwas digitale Souveränität zurückgewinnen will

• Markenanmeldungen und -recherche (Crash-Kurs)

Ich hoffe es wird was angenommen.

In case you want to get your hands dirty with Traefik, Kubernetes and the new GatewayAPI, I got you covered.

Here is another vagrant-libvirt setup that has #k3s, #Traefik and a #Nginx deployment. Instead of using a #Kubernetes #ingress or a Traefik ingressroute, this setup uses the #GatewayAPI resources like Gateways and HTTPRoutes.

https://codeberg.org/johanneskastl/traefik_gateway-api_on_k3s_vagrant_libvirt_ansible
https://github.com/johanneskastl/traefik_gateway-api_on_k3s_vagrant_libvirt_ansible

As usual, #Ansible does the heavy lifting and deploys everything in the cluster.

Have a lot of fun.

Dear all,

for playing around with the Ghost CMS / blog system I put together yet another vagrant-libvirt setup using Ansible and Podman Quadlets

https://codeberg.org/johanneskastl/ghost_podman_vagrant_libvirt_ansible
https://github.com/johanneskastl/ghost_podman_vagrant_libvirt_ansible

Have a lot of fun.

#RedHat #Ansible and #HashiCorp #Terraform Will Be Coming Together
While no hard plans were revealed at #RedHatSummit, it's clear Red Hat's #DevOps and HashiCorp's #IaC programs will end up working together.
After #IBM’s acquisition of HashiCorp was completed in February 2025, IBM was poised to deliver a tightly integrated, end-to-end automation setup for enterprises navigating increasingly complex cloud environments.
Terraform has 33.48% marketshare, Ansible, at 31.66%.
https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-ansible-and-hashicorp-terraform-will-be-coming-together/

There is no official Ansible collection for managing OVH resources. There are modules in the community.general, a collection made by another company and some small collections made by individuals. None of them were covering my problem of the moment which was to manage a list of members in a role on Logs Data Platform (aka LDP). So I've spent all day updating our dusty collection to make calls to our public API. I will propose to make it open source so we should have an official Ansible collection soon!

Take your FreeBSD ZFS game to the next level!

In our latest blog, Benedict Reuschling dives into automated ZFS snapshots with Sanoid — a powerful tool to schedule, manage, and prune snapshots effortlessly on FreeBSD. Learn how to set up snapshot policies to keep your data safe.

Bonus: Includes a ready-to-go Ansible playbook!

Read now: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/zfs-automatic-snapshots-with-sanoid-on-freebsd/
#FreeBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS #SysAdmin #Sanoid #Snapshots #DataRecovery #Ansible

Linux Schulungen im Juni & Juli 2025: Das sind die Kurse vor der Sommerpause unserer Akademie – jetzt noch Schulungsplatz sichern!

Du möchtest kurzfristig ein Wissens-Update in Sachen #Ansible, #Checkmk, #PostgreSQL oder #systemd? Dann melde dich jetzt an und hol dir von unseren Experten das Know-how, das du brauchst!

Unsere #Linux #Admin Grundlagen Schulung gibt dir den roten Faden für das Verständnis des gesamten Systems an die Hand – jetzt anmelden.

https://www.heinlein-support.de/news/ansible-bis-systemd-linux-schulungen

Gut, heute habe ich mein "Ansible-Lab" erweitert.

Hab jetzt...

- Debian
- Ubuntu
- RHEL
- OpenSuse

...im Einsatz.

Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops by Jeff Geerling is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Agile #Software #Startups #Ansible #Devops #CloudComputing #books #ebooks

Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool. Learn to use Ansible effectively, whether you manage one server—or thousands.

Find it on Leanpub!

One of the big (a.k.a. most important) selling points of #Ansible #AWX imo is that it has an API and a set of modules with which I can create/update/trigger resources on AWX without clicking in the UI.

I'm creating labs for the "show me Ansible like I'm 10 years old" micro-training which I'll be doing for a few of the employees at the @linuxhotel in a fortnight.

Big network device supplier publishes an #Ansible collection where all modules:
1) always apply changes
2) never check inputs or outputs and blindly expect everything to have gone ok
3) don't do check
4) don't do diff
5) have bad documentation
6) are very incomplete

I complained in a support case and their answer was "open a new feature request and contact sales".

I'm thinking Galaxy needs a way for people to vote and comment on the quality of modules...