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July 22, 2026
AAP 2.7 is worth upgrading to — but most teams discover what breaks in their Playbooks during the migration, not before. Here's …
March 24, 2020
Tests are great. Especially integration tests. But we need quite a lot of them to cover the codebase. And because we want to run …
February 10, 2020
This post was originally published on the Ansible blog . In Getting Started With Ansible Content Collections , which presented the …
December 5, 2019
Today, we can’t imagine managing complex IT environments without efficient automation, and luckily, we don’t have to owing to …
October 22, 2019
It is a well-known fact that real programmers do not document their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand …
September 16, 2019
Ansible project is maturing and changing the way we deliver Ansible content to the users. And while Ansible Galaxy is already a …
June 19, 2019
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a home or office product that cannot be controlled using some kind of web …
April 3, 2019
This post was reviewed in August 2024 and remains up-to-date with the latest Ansible changes. Unless you have been living under a …
March 26, 2019
It seems that today almost anyone knows how to provision a virtual machine in the cloud: simply select an operating system image …
February 14, 2019
Managing preboot execution environment (PXE) boot configurations for different computers is really tedious and error-prone when …
January 30, 2019
Setting up a preboot execution environment (PXE) server is relatively straightforward task once you know how various pieces fit …
September 18, 2018
Running your own Ansible playbooks upon ManageIQ / CloudForms provider event opens unimaginable possibilities to automate your …
August 16, 2018
Having read our blogpost about Implementing ManageIQ Provider Operations with Ansible one might be wondering about how to capture …
