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Current status: writing an Ansible task that creates a jinja2 template that creates a bash script that uses bash arrays that come from a YAML dict of lists

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

actual lol at thog’s masterclass https://news.ansible.uk/a458.html
“Then know that it’s Chohlit who holds your life like a grape on the palm of his hand.” He brought his nose right next to Innowen’s, and glared. “Too bad I don't like grapes,” he hissed.

I am trying to transfer a 30G Database from one server to another using mariabackup, mbstream and #socat. The transfer rate is pretty bad when I start the whole thing with #ansible, but it seems like I'm getting okayisch transfer rates if I copy the commands from the ansible files and run them by hand. Is t…

Nachtschicht mit Ansible für Serverupdates. Früher wurden pro Nacht wenige Server aktualisiert. Heute sind es dank Automatisierung Hunderte. Wie effektiv heutzutage einige Prozesse doch geworden sind ...
#ansible #automation

I always feel soooooo slow when I'm starting a new IaC project or doing a major refactor.
In this case there's a lot of orchestration that I'm the tying to leave room for future enhancements. Anyway it always takes long time
I'm re-working my lanecloud Ansible provisioning to better use netbox as a source of truth... And also switching to provisioning VMs with libvirt instead of nomad

For $reasons I needed a string in an Ansible Jinja2 template which would be a time between 18:00:00 and the following 05:00:00 (an 11 hour span).
The time should be different for each host, spread throughout the range, but should be deterministic (i.e. it will never change for a given host).
The best I could come up with was: https://pa…

I wrote up my code for downloading the installer from a current GitHub release
#Automation

Downloading a GitHub current release
I had a need to download the current version of a package distributed via GitHub in one of my Ansible playbooks. I also wrote a PowerShell version for use in another script. I wanted to write down the code so I wouldn't forget it. You have to specify the GitHub

Quadlet to taka cudowna rzecz...

Rozwiązuje to odwieczny problem, czy instalować wszystko bez kontenerów i ogarnąć systemd, czy bawić się w docker compose, czy pisać serwisy uruchamiające kontener...

Z qadlet'em opisujemy kontenery, sieci, wolumeny w systemd i normalnie kontrolujemy przez systemctl, journalctl itd - cudowne. Bardzo ładnie się to spina z Ansible.

#devops…

Self-Healing Network of Interconnected Edge Devices Empowered by Infrastructure-as-Code and LoRa Communication
Rob Carson, Mohamed Chahine Ghanem, Feriel Bouakkaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16268

Self-Healing Network of Interconnected Edge Devices Empowered by Infrastructure-as-Code and LoRa Communication
This Paper proposes a self-healing, automated network of Raspberry Pi devices designed for deployment in scenarios where traditional networking is unavailable. Leveraging the low-power, long-range capabilities of the LoRa (Long Range) protocol alongside Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies, the research addresses challenges such as limited bandwidth, data collisions, and node failures. Given that LoRa's packet-based system is incompatible with conventional IaC tools like Ansible and Terra…