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Ansible Galaxy just added Solaris platform support
While Ansible is mostly used in Linux environments, it can also be used to manage other UNIX variants like Solaris. Now the central hub for Ansible roles, Ansible Galaxy, also added support for the...
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[Howto] Managing Solaris 11 via Ansible
Ansible can be used to manage various kinds of Server operating systems – among them Solaris 11. Managing Solaris 11 servers via Ansible from my Fedora machine is actually less exciting than previously...
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[Howto] Solaris 11 on KVM
Recently I had to test a few things on Solaris 11 and wondered how well it works virtualized with KVM. It does – with a few tweaks. Preface Testing various different versions of operating systems is...
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Ansible Tower 3.1 – screenshot tour
Ansible Tower 3.1 was just released. Time to have a closer look at some of the new features like the workflow editor. Just a few days ago, Ansible Tower 3.1 was released. Besides the usual bug fixes,...
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[Howto] ara – making Ansible runs easier to read and understand
Ara is a simple web server showing detailed information about Ansible runs. It is helpful in understanding and troubleshooting Ansible runs. Background Ansible runs, especially on the command line, do...
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Getting Started with Ansible Security Automation: Investigation Enrichment
Last November we introduced Ansible security automation as our answer to the lack of integration across the IT security industry. Let’s have a closer look at one of the scenarios where Ansible can...
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[Howto] My own mail & groupware server, part 2: initial mail server setup
Running your own mail and groupware server can be challenging. I recently had to re-create my own setup from the ground and describe the steps in a blog post series. This blog post is #2 of the series...
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[Howto] Create your own cloud gaming server to stream games to Fedora
A few months back I wanted to give a game a try which only runs on Windows and requires a dedicated GPU. Since I have neither of those, a decided to set up my own Windows cloud gaming server to stream...
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[Howto] My own mail & groupware server, part 3: Git server
Running your own mail and groupware server can be challenging. I recently had to re-create my own setup from the ground and describe the steps in a blog post series. This blog post is #3 of the series...
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[Short Tip] Plot live-data in Linux terminal
Recently I realized that one of the disks in my server had died. After the replacement, the RAID sync started – and I quickly had to learn that this was going to take days (!). But I also learned that...
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