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Posts published under the DevOps account are collective contributions by the dbi services DevOps consultants. The practice covers Kubernetes and container platforms, CI/CD toolchains, and infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform, including the YaK framework for multi-cloud deployments, helping organizations make their infrastructure reproducible, scalable, and efficient.

124 posts since October 2015

Ansible loops: A guide from basic to advanced examples

If you are writing roles with Ansible, you must already have thought about implementing a loop, a loop of loops with Ansible, and wonder how. The ability to execute tasks in loops is primordial. This guide will provide multiple loop examples in Ansible, starting with a basic loop and progressing to more advanced scenarios. Basic loop Let’s start with the… 

My first day at SUSECON 2024

It is mid-June, and I have the opportunity with my colleague Arnaud Berbier to go to Berlin. Not for visiting the city, not for sightseeing, but for a business conference. This year, SUSECON set its location in the German capital, and as a partner, it was a kind of must for dbi services to be next to SUSE. SUSECON, the… 

Rancher RKE2: Rancher roles for cluster autoscaler

The cluster autoscaler brings horizontal scaling into your cluster by deploying it into the cluster to autoscale. This is described in the following blog article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/rancher-autoscaler-enable-rke2-node-autoscaling/. It didn’t emphasize much about the user and role configuration. With Rancher, the cluster autoscaler uses a user’s API key. We will see how to configure minimal permissions by creating Rancher roles for cluster… 

Cloud Native Storage: Identify your storage

Welcome back in this series of blogs regarding Cloud Native Storage. Check my previous on Cloud Native Storage: Overview for the introduction. In this one, I will discuss about the process involved in choosing a cloud native storage product. If you remember my previous blog, I pasted the exhaustive (big!) list of products. Of course, if you are familiar with…