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Declaring environments in GitLab

Why do I need to declare environments in GitLab ? To track deployed versions on each environment To control deployment on environments (e.g. add an approval to deploy production) Add environment-related variables An environment can be linked to(…)

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.

Ansible Automates – Event Driven & Lightspeed

It was a pleasure to attend the Ansible Automates Roadshow in Geneva this year with my colleague Chay Te. There were several topics and sessions covered during the full day. It was a learning opportunity about the vision and(…)

Do we need DBAs in 2023?

Introduction : Over the past months, people asked me more and more questions about the DBA role and the underlying question was often: Are we witnessing the end of the DBA role in IT? My first answer, after a(…)

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2023 – Day 3

Today is the last day of conferences. It is unexpected but I get fitter and fitter as I walk between 4 and 5 kilometre each day from one session to another. The RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre is huge and(…)

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2023 – Day 2

Here we are with Arnaud Berbier, up for our second conference day! You can check my blog for Day 1 if you’ve missed it. Keynote sessions Like yesterday, we started with a bunch of(…)

How to use AWX REST API to execute jobs

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction AWX provides a REST API which allows to do pretty all commands that can be executed through the web interface, using http requests. Sometimes is more easy to restart, or start jobs(…)

Kubernetes: Extension of disk in Rook Ceph

In my previous blog, I’ve introduced the storage solution Rook Ceph for Kubernetes. We saw that in our architecture we had 3 workers dedicated for storage using Ceph file system. Each worker had 2 disks(…)

cloud-init native Ansible support

Cloud-init is a software developed to setup automatically a cloud virtual machine using metadata ingested and applied at the first boot or at a chosen frequency. All the magic happens through a #cloud-config YAML file. #cloud-config already supports Ansible(…)

DevOpsDays Berlin 2022 Day 2

After a reenergising diner with a typical German meal… Sushis!  My colleague (and now food mate!) Chay Te and I were ready to rock Day 2. The day is structured the same way as Day 1 but I’ll(…)