Building a Bare Metal Kubernetes Lab Part 1

My home lab has been getting a bit long in the tooth recently. These days I work mostly with container platforms and Infrastructure as Code but those are mostly put to work inside the opaque walls of public cloud prov...

Simulating AWS Terraform Builds With Localstack

Previously we looked at using Localstack to emulate AWS services and speed up the feedback loop during development. In this short post we’re going to look at how to integrate this tool with Terraform to perform some s...

Ansible - Looping Over Lists and Dictionaries

Recently I’ve been writing some Ansible plays for a personal project and looking around online reminded me just how much people struggle with handling loops. It’s not a huge surprise, whilst the documentation is prett...

Emulating AWS Services Using Localstack

One of the challenges that seems to crop up pretty frequently is reliably simulating a cloud platform or application without having to tediously configure a sandbox environment for every little change. Even when a san...

Ansible Tower - Understanding Custom Credentials

Without a doubt the topic that seems to confuse people the most when using Ansible Tower is working with Credentials. Especially how to pass multiple credentials from either an external Secret Management source (which...