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Weekly Update 6-17-2019: All About Ansible

Linux Academy

Because of how it is presented. Ansible uses YAML to describe your automation jobs, which is easy to learn in comparison to other languages because it looks very similar to plain English. But y ou can do all of that and more in our free Ansible Quick Start course on Linux Academy , right now. LPI Linux Essentials 1.6.

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Plain Text Productivity Redux

Scott Lowe

In the last few weeks, though, I’ve revisited the idea of a plain text productivity system as part of my migration to Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop OS, and I think I’ve resolved some of the issues that were present in my last attempt. Further, I very recently decided to make Ubuntu Linux 16.04 I’m not sure about #4 yet.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository.

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OpenStack Summit 2013: OpenStack Back to the Enterprise, Keep Calm and Boldly Go On

Scott Lowe

Florian starts out the presentation with a slide that says, “This is a business, not a science project.” Finally, Florian acknowledges that his presentation will probably be a bit biased toward service provider-type use cases. ” He re-iterates that this session is about making business sense.

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Technology Short Take 92

Scott Lowe

Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Tony Bourke has a two-part series on ZFS and Linux and encryption ( part 1 , part 2 ). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Ansible Roles Explained | Cheat Sheet

Linux Academy

Simply use ansible-galaxy init <ROLE_NAME> to create a new role in your present working directory. Deployment of the role, by comparison, is easy. The post Ansible Roles Explained | Cheat Sheet appeared first on Linux Academy. Deploying the role. Most of the hard work was completed when we constructed the role itself.

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Technology Short Take #69

Scott Lowe

First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions.

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