Enhancing Ansible Automation: Exploring the Power of Ansible Semaphore, a Modern Open-Source GUI

Ansible Semaphore is a web-based tool for managing Ansible projects and workflows. It provides a graphical user interface that allows us to view and manage our Ansible tasks, playbooks, and inventories in a centralized location. With Semaphore, we can easily manage and monitor our Ansible workflows, schedule and automate tasks, and collaborate with team members in a seamless way. This tool simplifies the management of Ansible projects, making it more accessible to users who may not be familiar with command-line interfaces or coding.

Semaphore is written in Go language, and it is available for Windows, macOS and Linux (x64, ARM, ARM64). Ansible Semaphore is an open-source project with high-quality code.

We will install and configure Ansible Semaphore in Docker, and take a look at its interface and configuration.

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Fixing the “Error connecting…” issue in Kali KeX on WSL (updated: 2023. 01. 12.)

Requirements:

  • Kali distro is installed
  • KeX is installed
  • Kali is WSL version 2
  • Coffee is ready for consumption


Time to time the Kali desktop on WSL stops working and spits out the following message:

Error connecting to the KeX server.
Please try "kex start" to start the service.
If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again.

Of course the “solution” from the error message does not work.

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