Replace scripts with Ansible: package installation

Installing and configuring software on one machine, for instance your own developer's environment, is an 'easy' task. But how about your team? Or production? Everything is documented and you only probably install some of the components manually, or better, you automate this using a set of shell scripts. The ...

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Giving to your favourite content creators

It is hard to remember the time I really sat down in front of the TV, waiting for a programme to show up, and really enjoy it. Mostly it was accompanied with plenty of interruptions. It might have been Star Trek on the public channels that I enjoyed the most ...

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Run an example application on OpenShift

In a previous article I have written on how easy it is to stand up a test environment of OpenShift. In this article I will describe an example application from the sourcecode to the created image and how this gets deployed. The steps are explained using manual steps, and how ...

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Setup Docker storage to use LVM thin pool

If you install Docker on a new Fedora or CentOS system, it is very likely that you use devicemapper. Especially in the case of Fedora cloud images, no special configuration is done to the image. While Atomic images come pre-configured with a dedicated pool. Using devicemapper with loopback can lead ...

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Deploy an OpenShift test cluster

In my previous article I described how I used an Ansible playbook and a few roles to stand-up a Kubernetes test environment. In that article I mentioned that to deploy a production-ready environment some work more was required. Luckily, it is now very easy to stand up a production and ...

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