Ansible 2.8 has been released. While not as many major features as 2.7, there are an absolute truckload of smaller features, including quite a few focussed on Windows. Some highlights for me: Experimental support for Ansible Collections and content namespacing – Ansible content can now be packaged in a collection and addressed via namespaces. This […]
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I have Jenkins configured with a dozen jobs that support a microservices application. The setup worked fine for several months until, suddenly, jobs started to fail with errors similar to this (console log fragment): ERROR: Maven JVM terminated unexpectedly with exit code 137 It caused all jobs to fail most of the time,
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A new version of Ansible Tower has been released, including some useful features we’ve been looking forward to. In particular the additions to Workflow look very nice: the Workflow Convergence step which allows you to wait on multiple jobs before continuing should simplify some complex logic you’ve had to embed in your workflows to achieve
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This post is part 1 of a series: Part 1: Website automation with Selenium and JMeter Part 2: Selenium scripting, Installation One of our customers asked us to troubleshoot their web application: “out of memory” errors were causing page loads to fail. To understand and isolate the problem we needed a way to reproduce it,
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This is the final post, part 2 of a series: Part 1: Website automation with Selenium and JMeter Part 2: Selenium scripting, Installation In this post I show how to script Selenium for handling asynchronous browser behaviour, and how to install the tools.
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RedHat Ansible Engine 2.7 has been released, bringing with it a bunch of new features including: Speedups on Linux. A new strategy for invoking remote systems is introduced requiring half the threads as previously. Reboot module for Linux – Like the existing win_reboot module for Windows, this allows you to reboot a remote Linux machine
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Red Hat Summit was held earlier in the year, and now that the recordings are online, we’ve pulled together all the Ansible content in one place. Whether you were able to attend Summit or not, there are some great ideas in here to improve your use of Ansible. Manage Windows Like Linux with Ansible
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Join the Code Partners team at DevOps World and Jenkins World 2018 in San Francisco in September. It’s shaping up to be a cracking week of workshops and sessions covering the latest in software automation, DevOps practices, Continuous Delivery, Container Orchestration, Testing and more. We had a great (albeit exhausting) time last year
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There is a new Security Advisory that covers issues in several Jenkins plugins, including the Kubernetes Plugin, the Confluence Publisher Plugin, the SSH Agent Plugin and several more. Descriptions of the issues and how they have been addressed in each plugin are included. Check out the advisory to see if any issues affect plugins you
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There is a point release for Ansible that addresses a few issues, including a couple of Security issues: Security Fix – avoid loading host/group vars from cwd when not specifying a playbook or playbook base dir Security Fix – avoid using ansible.cfg in a world writable dir. This is in addition to the Security fix in 2.6
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