The PrivateBin Ansible Role deploys the PrivateBin service in a rootless container using Podman. This container operates within the user namespace and is managed by a systemd unit, ensuring a secure and efficient deployment.
This role is designed with simplicity in mind, featuring minimal variables to reduce complexity. It caters to both beginners who are comfortable with default configurations and advanced users looking to customize PrivateBin.
The Ansible Promtail Role allows you to effortlessly deploy and manage Promtail, agent which ships contents of local logs to private Loki. Role is tailored for systems from the Red Hat family. Before diving into the details, I highly recommend reading the role's README.md file for a comprehensive understanding.
In this blog post, we will explore how to leverage Ansible and the node_exporter role to streamline the deployment of Node Exporter—a popular Prometheus exporter for monitoring Linux systems. By using this role, you can easily configure and deploy Node Exporter across multiple servers in your infrastructure.
Everyone knows that patching packages are not fun. I decided to create an Ansible role that can patch Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) and other Red Hat derivatives (e.g. CentOS, Rocky, Alma, Fedora ). This role support 3 modes for patching.
Sometimes restart is necessary. In that case, yum-utils (dnf-utils) provide an excellent utility “needs-restarting”. This utility can inform us if a restart is required. If we mix all this we realize that automated patching is not that hard.
This blog post focus on a simple and quick explanation of what Ansible is and what it can do.