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Short blog post on how a small fix I implemented for the ansible-netbox inventory plugin reminded me that often code changes, are just a small part of upstreaming a fix to a mature open source project. It can be a little challenging, or frustrating, but that's okay!
#ansible #opensource #netbox

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…

Ansible biggest weakness is the fact that they used yaml

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…

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

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 recently got around to installing an OS on my home server, and setting up an Ansible playbook to manage the basic config.
mDNS is working, so I can access it at server.local on my network.
What’s next? Many ideas, but I think setting up docker and using it to run @… is on the short list.
Would be lovely to have a second copy of my git repos at ho…

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…

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 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