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October 15, 2026
Never Deploy Broken Playbooks Again: Ansible Automation Platform and Steampunk Spotter Integration
Imagine confidently deploying Ansible Playbooks knowing they're free of security vulnerabilities and compliance issues. The …
March 26, 2019
Provisioning bare metal servers using ManageIQ
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 pixies with style
Managing preboot execution environment (PXE) boot configurations for different computers is really tedious and error-prone when …
January 30, 2019
How to train your pixies
Setting up a preboot execution environment (PXE) server is relatively straightforward task once you know how various pieces fit …
September 18, 2018
Ansible Playbook as an Event Callback in CloudForms
Running your own Ansible playbooks upon ManageIQ / CloudForms provider event opens unimaginable possibilities to automate your …
August 16, 2018
Dynamic UI for ManageIQ Provider Operations
Having read our blogpost about Implementing ManageIQ Provider Operations with Ansible one might be wondering about how to capture …
August 9, 2018
Implementing ManageIQ Provider Operations with Ansible
Traditional way of integrating ManageIQ provider operations is to bake them in code of the provider core, adhering to certain …
July 26, 2018
ManageIQ and Redfish, sitting in a tree ...
… K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes read-only inventory support, then comes ability to perform simple actions, then comes support for …
May 31, 2018
Fishing Around in the Sea of Hardware
Have you ever thought about how Amazon and the likes manage to take care of all their servers? And no, buying admins Segways to …
