Martin Bracher

Shell and Perl in one script

To run a Perl script directly like a binary from within the shell, you have to set the executable flag on the script Add the shebang line (the 1st line (#!...) specifiyng the interpreter to use) #!/usr/bin/env perl #!/usr/bin/perl(…)

Errorhandling in Ansible

Errors in tasks – abort or ignore? Per default, if a task in a playbook fails, then the execution of the playbook is stopped for that host. - name: PLAY1 hosts: localhost gather_facts: no tasks: - name: let this(…)

Parallel execution of Ansible roles

Introduction You can run a playbook for specific host(s), a group of hosts, or “all” (all hosts of the inventory). Ansible will then run the tasks in parallel on the specified hosts. To avoid an overload, the parallelism –(…)

Ansible: reduce output in loops – or replace loops

Reduce the output If you do a loop in Ansible, it always prints the item variable for each loop. “item” is the current list element. If you are looping over a list with small values, then the output is(…)

Different types of Oracle wallets

In this blog post I will explain the different types of Oracle wallet with the auto_login feature. What is an Oracle Wallet An Oracle wallet is used to store certificates for Listeners with https protocol, or it can be used(…)