Molecule is the official testing framework for Ansible roles. It provides a streamlined way to create a virtualized environment to test the syntax and functionality of a role.
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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on a Debian Bullseye VM with an Ansible playbook
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizaton for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. The VirtualBox Guest Additions are extra pieces of software that enable better performance and functionality in virtual machines.
We install Guest Additions inside the virtual machine to activate this functionality. In VirtualBox, we can install Guest Additions by selecting Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image on the toolbar at the top of our guest OS window. This mounts a virtual disc to the VM. When we do this, our guest OS will respond as if we’ve just inserted a physical disc.
Here’s my example playbook that we can use to install Virtualbox Guest Additions on Debian Bullseye after installing the OS.
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Configuring the network interfaces of Linux machines can be tedious and unpredictable if we do it by hand. Let’s automatize the procedure and minimize the possible mistakes with using Ansible! This example uses Debian, but it can be easily ported to any platform.
Here’s my example playbook that can be used to configure network for static IP address on Debian Bullseye after the OS installation.
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Docker Engine is an open source containerization technology for building and containerizing our applications. Docker Engine acts as a client-server application with a server with a long-running daemon process dockerd and APIs which specify interfaces that programs can use to talk to and instruct the Docker daemon. Docker Engine is available on a variety of Linux platforms, macOS and Windows 10 through Docker Desktop, and as a static binary installation. Docker Engine is the industry’s de facto container runtime that runs on various Linux (CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Oracle Linux, RHEL, and Ubuntu) and Windows Server operating systems.
Here’s an example playbook that we can use to install Docker Engine on Debian Bullseye after the base OS installation.
Continue reading “Installing Docker Engine on Debian Bullseye as an Ansible playbook”Why IT and Information Security is rotting at most companies?
Seeing the rise of the Cyber Security incidents around the world a non-IT person asked me about the problems with the security domain and the challenges that make it difficult, or sometimes impossible to protect systems and data. My explanation starts with a hypothetical startup company that grows up during the decades and becomes successful. After the first data leaks they decide to take care of security, and we pick up the story at this point.
Continue reading “Why IT and Information Security is rotting at most companies?”How to install Hashicorp Vault on Debian
Hashicorp Vault is a popular tool for managing secrets and encryption in cloud environments. It allows us to store, access, and distribute sensitive data securely across different applications and platforms. In this blog post, I will show us how to install Hashicorp Vault on Debian 11 (Bullseye), the latest stable release of the Debian operating system.
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Hashicorp Vault is a secret storage solution for storing and managing secrets, such as passwords, tokens, certificates, and keys. In this post, we will go through how to use Ansible with Hashicorp Vault to retrieve secrets and use them in our Ansible playbooks.
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