I'm writing some playbooks to set up an XMPP server and that requires a couple of DNS entries. I have my playbook working on Route 53, but I'd like to make this usable for people who might not be ...

At a time when the configuration management market was dominated by Puppet and Chef, an open source project called Ansible emerged with a simpler approach to automating IT environments. An agentless ...

Many companies like mine use AWS infrastructure as a service (IaaS) heavily. Sometimes we want to perform a potentially risky operation on an EC2 instance. As long as we do not work with immutable ...

Between my ever-expanding IoT gizmo collection and the never-ending VM and LXC images I want to tinker with, I’ve been getting deeper down the automation rabbit hole with each passing week. On the ...

Infrastructure is configured declaratively ('infrastructure as code'), which, especially in combination with the management of configuration files in git repositories, enables very reliable deployment ...