Explaining Ansible Facts With Examples
This tutorial explains what Ansible facts are, and how to gather system information i.e facts in Ansible playbooks. A Brief Introduction To Ansible Facts Facts are the information about the …
How To Upgrade To Fedora 36 From Fedora 35 [Workstation And Server]
Fedora 36 has been released! This step by step tutorial tutorial explains how to upgrade to Fedora 36 from Fedora 35 and older versions. If you’re already using Fedora 35, …
A cautionary tale about locking Linux & FreeBSD user accounts
Like every other solo developer and sysadmin, I do stuff using ssh. Some stuff is automated using scripts, and others require ssh login. For example, one of my scripts logs …
How To Use Variables In Ansible Playbooks
In our last article we discussed what Ansible playbooks are and how to create and run tasks through playbooks. In this article, we will go one step further and learn …
How To Use Debug Module In Ansible Playbooks
In this guide, we will discuss what is Ansible debug module, what are the supported parameters in debug module and finally how to use the debug module with each parameter …
Ansible SSH Authentication And Privilege Escalation
In this article, we are going to focus on two important Ansible concepts. The first concept will be how SSH Key-based and password-based authentication works in Ansible. The second concept …
Find User Accounts With Empty Password In Linux
The worst kind of password is not a weak password but no password at all. As as system admin, you must ensure that every user account has a strong password. …
How To Export And Import KVM Virtual Machines In Linux
In this article, I will walk you through the steps to export the KVM virtual machine disk and configurations and later import them into the same machine or into a …
How to migrate from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux (conversion)
I already wrote about migrating from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream. I also have a guide about migrating from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux. Today, I am working on another …
How to migrate from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux (conversion)
I already wrote about migrating from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream. Now, I am migrating Linode VM from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8. The server runs a very simple …