Defining variables for your Ansible playbooks and roles can become challenging as your project grows. Browsing the Ansible documentation, the diversity of Ansible variables location is confusing, to say the least: command line values (for example, -u my_user, these are ...

Recently, I posted a tutorial on how I monitored my Raspberry-pi based “pihole” server using New Relic and Flex. Like many tutorials, what you read, there is the end result, a narrative of the perfect execution of a well-conceived idea ...

I recently came across this blog post from Ruud van Asseldonk titled “The YAML Document From Hell.” I’ve always heard that YAML has its pitfalls, but hadn’t looked into the details and thankfully hadn’t been affected, mainly due to my ...

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that helps manage and deploy applications in a cloud environment. It is used to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It is an efficient way to manage application health with ...

In any web service that receives and transmits data to and from a server, the first and last events will usually be transforming the data from the format used by the web request into the format that the web server ...