08/13/18
A flexible development environment is an important base for CD, demonstrations and integration against Fabric networks or Composer applications. We create these with Ansible on an EC2 instance. Read more
We use OpenStack-Ansible to set up our OpenStack cluster and Ceph's Rados Gateway (radosgw) as object store backend. Read more
05/29/18
Tired of Jenkins? Always keeping an eye on all those new kids on the block with their super cool and simple CI Pipeline files? Here´s a guide on how to fire up a fully functional GitLab CI/CD pipeline Read more
09/29/17
We successfully scaled our Windows Docker containers running on one Docker host. But what if we change our focus and see our distributed application as a whole? Read more
Ansible 2.1 introduced two features that make it possible to add proper debug logging to your playbooks, and also check and troubleshoot them on the fly, while they are executed. Read more
05/30/17
Provision a Docker Windows Container with Ansible? No Problem! But wasn´t Docker meant for more than one Container?! Don´t we... Read more
04/06/17
This is a crazy world. It´s not only possible to make Ansible provision Windows machines. No! There are Docker Windows... Read more
01/02/17
There are times you have to use a Windows box to run your Spring Boot app on. For whatever reason - using the same Continuous Integration (CI) tools like we are used to should be non-negotiable! Read more
04/16/15
In a previous post, I wrote about executing Puppet from within an Ansible playbook. But the output did not look... Read more
