Automation

Smart Automation with M-Files: Real Use Cases

In the world of information management, time is money, and manual processes are the enemy of efficiency. The time of simple document management systems is over. Now, we need tools that help workers optimize their time and make(…)

MongoDB log analysis : a comprehensive guide

Contrary to other DBMS, MongoDB self-managed deployments generate logs in a JSON format, which can be quite intimidating at first. But instead of hoping to never have to look at the logs, you can use(…)

Set SQL Server Trace Flags Automatically and Smoothly

Managing SQL Server trace flags effectively is a common task for DBAs and system engineers, especially when tuning the SQL Server behavior for specific use cases or performance optimizations. While trace flags can be enabled programmatically using T-SQL commands(…)

Ansible automates roadshow 2023

I attended this tour from Red Hat to promote automation at Ansible automates roadshow with my colleague Arnaud Berbier. You’ll find his review of the journey here) in Geneva. It was the third date from their tour.

Database Check for a one-to-one Migration with OMrun

Procedure to check a one-to-one migration between different database types autogenerated and generically with OMrun.

Deploy awx-operator with Helm using images from a local registry

You want to deploy Ansible AWX on a Kubernetes cluster using awx-operator, but your security policy requires you to use a local registry to store the necessary container images ? Okay, let’s see how(…)

Ansible Driven Automation and Kafka

I will add another example of what can be done with Ansible Driven Automation by interfacing it with Kafka. For those who wonder what Event-Driven Ansible is have a look at my previous blog about(…)

Ansible Event Driven Automation

In my previous blogs about Ansible, I covered a few use cases: Simple playbooks Use Ansible like a Programming Language REST API calls(…)

Patching WebLogic with Stack Patch Bundle (SPB)

Oracle delivers patches for WebLogic every 3 months. These Critical Patch Updates (CPU) are often composed of multiple patches which makes even more steps to have them installed on server: Download Copy on server Installation via opatch Since(…)

AWS re:Invent day 3 – Gray failures mitigation

So again during the 3rd day of the re:Invent 2022 there were plenty of interesting information to take with us. However, the most interesting part was for sure the workshop about gray failures and how to mitigate them in(…)