So, you decided to write your first Ansible Playbook. Maybe not even your first, maybe you just want to know how to write secure and reliable ones. Splendid, you came to the right place. …

Red Hat launched Ansible Automation Platform 2 (AAP2) in September 2021 and has since already updated to version 2.3. It brings many excellent features to further enhance your automation. The current date to finally upgrade from Ansible Automation Platform 1.2 …

In the past few months, AI systems have caused quite a stir on the web. We couldn’t wait to get our hands dirty and try to write Ansible Playbooks even faster, or at least learn something new. …

Ansible Lint is a tool that checks your Ansible Playbooks for errors and provides recommendations for improvements. Steampunk Spotter is a tool that checks your Ansible Playbooks for errors and provides recommendations for improvements. So, what’s the deal? Is Spotter just a fancy Ansible Lint? Do we really need two…

If you’re reading this, you know the feeling of putting off upgrading your Ansible Playbooks for as long as possible because you know it will take time, effort, and patience to do it. But it doesn’t have to be this way. …

Upgrading Ansible Playbooks and roles to the latest Ansible version can be quite a challenge, as a lot can change between versions (best practices alter, parameters and modules are moved or renamed, attributes are deprecated) … and the most challenging of all: you need to figure out what you were…

WORDS BY The Spotter Team Is there anything worse than working with unreliable Ansible Playbooks, exposing yourself to security risks and broken automation? Well, we could name a few things but this is definitely at the top of the list. Most of the time, you put your playbooks at risk…

WORDS BY Jasna Simončič Don’t you wish you had a little helper by your side to spot elusive errors when writing Ansible Playbooks? Or anticipate potential problems playbooks might cause when you run them? Well, now you do! Steampunk Spotter is an assisted automation writing tool that analyzes and enhances…

WORDS BY Justin Činkelj, Jasna Simončič Ansible can be used to automate anything, from configuration management, application deployment, provisioning, orchestration, and networking to security. In this post, we will focus on one specific use case: setting up and updating Linux with Ansible. Problem Our client needed help with optimizing the management…