Reduce risks and speed up your automation. Use Steampunk Spotter to analyze and enhance your Ansible Playbooks. Start now! | Continue reading
The point of automating IT tasks is to save time. But in reality, the process of successfully automating a task can actually take longer than the task itself if your instructions are not clear. So should we give up on automating IT and miss out on all its benefits?Of course not, … | Continue reading
We often talk about techniques and tools that help developers write high-quality Ansible content (modules and plugins). Of course, having high-quality Ansible collections is a prerequisite for creating robust automation workflows, but Ansible playbook authors still need to use th … | Continue reading
We’ve previously talked about using a dynamic inventory for cloud automation with Ansible and promised to also explore inventory caching. Here we are! We’re looking at what inventory caching is, why we need it, and how it can speed up our day-to-day operations with Ansible. | Continue reading
It has been a while since our last hardcore technical post. So we decided to put steamy cloud posts aside for a moment and get down and dirty with one of the new features of Ansible Core 2.11: argument specification for Ansible roles. | Continue reading
If you have any decent amount of servers in the cloud, you want to use automation to create and manage them. Even with few servers, having your infrastructure specified as code serves the much-needed dual purpose of documenting exactly what is necessary for your setup and giving … | Continue reading
Cloud automation tools can save companies time and money by enabling them to focus their efforts and resources on value-added activities instead of managing their cloud infrastructure. And as a cloud provider, it is in your best interest to ensure your users have the best possibl … | Continue reading
Cloud provisioning is a critical element of the modern cloud computing model. We live in the age of microservices, where automation is not a nice-to-have anymore. It became an integral part of everyday operations. | Continue reading
This e-book by XLAB Steampunk presents the importance of high-quality Ansible Collections and its benefits for software vendors and Ansible technology partners. | Continue reading
Successful product adoption results in high user engagement and loyal brand advocates who love your product and use it regularly. Its the culmination of customer satisfaction, and is a vital tenet that encourages others to purchase your products. | Continue reading
Learn how to speed up the adoption of automation with high-quality Ansible Collections by listening to free on-demand webinar. XLAB Steampunk presents best practices. | Continue reading
In our previous blog post, we looked at what configuration management tools bring to the table. And in this post, we will take a closer look at Ansible, our configuration management tool of choice. So if you want to learn what Ansible is, what it does, and how it works, this is t … | Continue reading
In this article, you’ll learn the basics of Configuration Management tools so that you can decide which one you need. Whether you’re looking to automate your infrastructure management or are just browsing for future reference, you’ll walk away with a handful of useful takeaways a … | Continue reading
Some of our previous posts focused on infrastructure management using Ansible. We will take things one step further today and create a rudimentary self-service catalog using Ansible Tower. | Continue reading
This post was originally published on the Ansible blog.In the previous installment of our “let us create the best Ansible Content Collection ever” saga, we covered the DigitalOcean-related content migration process. What we ended up with was a fully functioning Ansible Content Co … | Continue reading
This post was originally published on the Ansible blog.In Getting Started With Ansible Content Collections, which presented the general idea behind what is becoming a new standard in the distribution of Ansible content, we learned about the what, the why and the how of Ansible Co … | Continue reading
Every good web service needs good a good authentication layer. AWS uses IAM to manage users, one of which is your development user (you’re not using the root account, are you?). But how do we authenticate with AWS when using the Steampunk AWS Ansible Collection? Let’s find out! | Continue reading