Sysadmins.
DevOps.
Developers.
Operators in different uniforms.
09 Ghost Operations – The Final Blades
Category: Ghost Automation 2025
Ghost Automation – Build secure, simple and functional automation. Avoid the common mistakes.
08 Objective: Encrypt the Silence – Ansible Vault
Ghosts know that secrets are critical.
You can’t let them sit or travel in plain text.
Ansible Vault is the blade of the Operator.
07 Objective: Reusability and Doctrine – Roles
Write once.
Execute unlimited.
The Ghost Ops way.
Variables – loaded.
Templates – locked.
Tasks – trained.
Playbooks – executing.
Roles – fixed directory structures of Ansible code.
Continue reading “07 Objective: Reusability and Doctrine – Roles”06 Objective: Orchestrated Strikes – Playbooks
Variables – loaded.
Templates – locked.
Tasks – trained.
Ghosts may notice – we’re flying low with plain text variables – for now.
Continue reading “06 Objective: Orchestrated Strikes – Playbooks”05 Objective: Code as Message – Jinja2 Templates
Logic and data separated.
Variables are loaded.
Dynamic configuration files? Templates are your blades – fed by variables.
They support logic.
Loops.
Conditionals.
Ghosts don’t over-complicate.
Clarity keeps templates sharp.
04 Objective: Fluid Intelligence – Variables
Hostnames.
Network addresses.
Ports.
Filenames.
They change.
They’re variables.
03 Objective: Execution Vectors – Modules & Tasks
Modules – The Execution Units
Modules are small working horses.
Tactical code units. One module. One function. The UNIX way.
Clear Python code.
You don’t need Python – modules are abstracted to YAML.
02 Objective: Whispers to Hosts – Inventories
You don’t command what you can’t see.
You don’t control what you can’t reach.
Inventories are your maps.
Your whispers travel through them.
01 Objective: Forge The Blade – Deploy And Configure
Ansible brings surgical precision, or chaos and entropy.
The key is the installation and configuration.
Don’t go in war with a blunt sword.
Continue reading “01 Objective: Forge The Blade – Deploy And Configure”00 The Special Forces Of Operations – Ansible Tactical Briefing
You whispered.
DeadSwitch delivers.
Ansible for the ghosts.
A training? No.
Tactical briefing.
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