Some time ago I discovered an interesting use of the ternary-filter in Ansible. A ternary-filter in Ansible is a filter that takes three arguments: a condition, a value if the condition is true and an alternative value if the condition is false.

Here’s a simple example straight from Ansible …

As someone with years of experience using and teaching Ansible I want to share with you how I teach it to my colleagues in the most practical way possible.

However, before I get into the actual content of the training, it should be emphasized how important a functioning and identically …

Since I spent some time today on this, I’d rather write it down. Creating a Prometheus datasource that uses Azure Authentication was not straight forward.

Here’s the end result:

---
- name: Create a datasource in Grafana
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: Create prometheus datasource
      community.grafana.grafana_datasource:
        name …

The company I work for provides a broad scope of IT services to our customers and to be able to offer the best quality services, we rely heavily on automation, especially Red Hat Ansible. In this blog post, we’ll look at what our workflow looks like when automating with …

Actually I did not learn this today but already some years ago. Sometimes I need to connect to remote servers that have no hosts-file or dns-entry. But I don’t want to remember IP-addresses!

Luckily I do have these servers defined in Ansible’s hosts-file and I could theoretically …