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Securing a Server with Ansible
2015-02-27
A while back, Bryan Kennedy wrote a post describing how he spends the first 5 minutes configuring and securing a new linux server. He runs through the list of commands and configuration settings that address things like: …
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Ensuring a Command Module Task is Repeatable with Ansible
2014-11-22
A few readers have pointed out to me that there is a small improvement I could make to the simple Ansible playbook I created for my Ansible Quick Start post. Idempotence is an important concept in Ansible and the last task in the playbook was violating that principle. …
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Ansible Quick Start - A Brief Introduction
2014-09-26
Recently, I have been working with Ansible, an IT automation, configuration management and provisioning tool along the same lines as Chef and Puppet. If you are responsible for managing servers - even if it is just one - you would be well served to learn one of these tools. …