Apr 13 2021
Archive for 2021
Apr 01 2021
Build Ansible Inventory from IBM Cloud Resources
IBM Cloud relies on Softlayer API – also called IBM Classic Infrastructure – to automate things. The API is available in different languages such as Python, Go, Java or PHP. Here I will generate automatically a host inventory collected on my IBM Cloud account directly usable by Ansible. I will also generate datacenters groups. You […]
Mar 25 2021
Free Gantt style Timelines Based on Time/Hours with Sparkline
I wanted to show the timeline of a disaster recovery plan on a Gantt style chart to make it look better than a boring list of tasks with start and end times, but I couldn’t find any tool dealing with hours throughout a single day/24 hours. Gantt software also offer too many features that I […]
Mar 14 2021
Draw Beautiful Diagrams with Diagram as Code
Diagram as Code is a hot topic these days that brings a lof of benefits. Among them:– Keep track of changes, who and what– Store on a repository as simple text– No need to realign arrows or move things around when you add an item– Much faster as a consequence once you have the knowledge– […]
Mar 06 2021
Why Ansible Upgrades Packages on Hold and How to Fix it
I was writing a new Ansible role to upgrade all of my VMs. I was still using an old Rancher that only works with docker-ce package up to version 18.06. A first task holds back the package with Ansible Dpkg module, as recommended on many websites.A second step runs a full upgrade of my system […]