Ansible - Clean Formatted Playbooks
While going through and doing some cleanup to various different roles and playbooks in my Ansible collection I wanted to share what I feel is good clean form...
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Ansible - Debian Based Gotchas - Part-1
As I am currently running through some Docker setups between Debian Jessie and Ubuntu Trusty using Ansible I ran into a few gotchas. Now I would have assumed...
Ansible - Discover and Backup PowerDNS
Refreshed June 2026: the original did this with two playbooks, a shell wrapper, and a chain of curl, jq, grep, replace, and lineinfile to turn JSON into a...
Ansible - Using Ansible on Windows
Refreshed June 2026: the original version of this post installed Ansible on Windows through Cygwin, with Python 2 and Ansible 1.9. That approach is long d...
Packer - Vagrant - Ansible - Windows
While doing some Packer builds for Windows Server 2012 R2 to be used with Vagrant in order to do some Ansible learning I stumbled across this issue.