Everyone knows that passwords aren’t always secure, annoying to remember and type. Add to that the longer/stronger your password the harder it is to remember. Therefore ssh-keys are very convenient and more secure. However, most people don’t put a passphrase on their ssh-keys because surely this would mean you would have to enter this passphrase … Read more
I’ve been trying to setup group_vars in Ansible. My /group_vars/all file looked like; When I ran my playbook it said: It would have been helpful if it had provided a better error message. Anyhow, basically, I had got the syntax wrong in group vars by putting “quotes” around the value: Hope this helps someone.
You can install Balsamiq Mockup on Linux / Ubuntu but Balasmiq don’t provide good instructions. I have no idea why they don’t spend a little time and write documentation properly. Anyhow, here is how I installed Balsamiq on my Ubuntu 13.04 laptop. If you are looking for Instructions for installing Balsamuq Mockups for Ubuntu 13.10 … Read more
The Ansible website has some instructions for installing it on Ubuntu here. However, I like to install things from repositories and not git. So, I found a PPA with the latest version of Ansible on Launchpad. https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ansible So to install Ansible on Ubuntu run: Thanks Rodney Quillo.
We have been trying to make a curl requested to login to a secure website from within PHP on Ubuntu 12.04. However, curl was hanging and responding with a nothing. After much debugging, it turns out the curl was failing to negoitiate the correct ssl protocol to use. You can test if you have the … Read more
We have been using both Puppet and Ansible to configure our servers for several months. I have come to really love Ansible and I wanted to put down my reasons for finally choosing Ansible over Puppet. Reason 1: Ansible is decentralised. With Puppet you need to maintain a central configuration server and install a Puppet … Read more
How to add a user to a list of groups using an Ansible playbook using the user module: If you have set append to yes – the groups will be added to the list of existing groups. If append = no then just the list in groups with a set for the user.
I’ve been developing Ansible playbooks to help manage our Ubuntu servers. I wanted to install a list of package on a server using Ansible: The old syntax: The new syntax:
Qpress is a fast compression tool. It isn’t in the Ubuntu repositories but it very easy to install. Download it from the website: http://www.quicklz.com/ You will notice that there is a download link near the bottom of the page for Linux 64 bit. Copy the binary to /usr/bin/qpress . To make it owned by root … Read more
If you try apt-get install apt-add-repository on Ubuntu 13.04 it will say: E: Unable to locate package apt-add-repository You need to install python-software-properties-common.