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19. 09. 2024 Davide Gallo Development, DevOps

Ansible Development, Part 1.5: Building an Execution Environment in a Pipeline (CI/CD)

Hello everyone, I’m back to discuss Ansible and Ansible Execution Environments. In my previous blog, we talked about why and how execution environments are critical for a successful Ansible implementation. I hope my guide was easy to follow, but as you may have noticed, the process requires a significant amount of manual effort to keep…

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12. 09. 2024 Mattia Codato Development, DevOps

Publish NPM Package to GitHub Packages Registry with GitHub Actions

With the rise of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in modern software development, automating tasks like publishing npm packages has become crucial for efficiency. GitHub packages Registry (npm.pkg.github.com) allows developers to host and manage npm packages directly within GitHub, offering a seamless experience for both private and public repositories. By leveraging GitHub Actions, developers can…

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11. 09. 2024 Davide Gallo Contribution, Development, DevOps

Ansible Development, Part 1: Building an Execution Environment

Right now, at Würth Phoenix, we are investing in automating most of our operations using Ansible. You’re probably already familiar with what Ansible does, but to summarize, Ansible is an open-source, command-line IT automation application written in Python. I’ve talked about it here: One challenge we faced while developing our automation scripts was that we…

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30. 07. 2024 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

Terraform Integration with Ansible

In this blog post we’ll try a tool that’s new to me, called Terraform, and see how easy it is to integrate it with Ansible starting with no knowledge of Terraform. Terraform is a tool that allows you to automate resource provisioning; it uses HCL2 as the configuration language, and support has recently been added,…

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29. 07. 2024 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

include_task vs import_task in Ansible

After updating one of our machines, we found that some of our Ansible playbooks were failing with the following error: The include module was removed in ansible 2.16, while the include warning deprecation was already present in ansible 2.12. At this point, we can choose between two possible modules to replace include: import_tasks or include_tasks….

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26. 07. 2024 Alessandro Valentini DevOps

Bonding Configuration While Adding an OpenShift Node

When you prepare a machine for production, you usually want to use a redundant network interface in order to be resilient to possible network outages. When we created our OpenShift cluster this wasn’t possible during the installation procedure, at least not using the UPI procedure. We recently added a new node and discovered this new…

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24. 07. 2024 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

How to Add SSH Keys to ArgoCD and Tekton on OpenShift to Access Gitea: Part 3 – A Simple Tekton TaskRun

In the first blog post of this series I showed you how to set up an OpenShift test environment and set up Gitea via helm chart and add an ssh key to Gitea. In the second blog post we created a deployment with ArgoCD that clones via ssh from our Gitea instance. In this final…

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17. 07. 2024 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

How to Add SSH Keys to ArgoCD and Tekton on OpenShift to Access Gitea: Part2 – Add an SSH Key as a Secret to ArgoCD and Run a Test Deployment

In my previous post, we set up our test environment and a Gitea operator. In this blog post we’ll install the OpenShift GitOps operator and run a simple deployment. This setup allows us to test OpenShift-specific security constraints (such as OpenShift-specific SCCs, non privileged containers by default, etc.) in a test environment before going into…

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17. 07. 2024 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

How to Add SSH Keys to ArgoCD and Tekton on OpenShift to Access Gitea: Part1 – Set up the Test Environment and Add SSH Key to Gitea

In this series of blog posts I’ll show you how to set up ArgoCD and Tekton to clone git repositories via ssh from a Gitea instance hosted on an OpenShift cluster. Please note that for the sake of this blog post, the configurations are not suited for use in production, but just to give you…

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02. 07. 2024 Emil Fazzi DevOps, NetEye

Enhancing Our CI System with Data Visualization

As you may have noticed from recent posts from some of my colleagues about “Boosting NetEye CI Speed: Test Parallelization” or “Speeding up the NetEye CI Testing Phase“, we are improving our CI in order to have a reliable, fast system that is able to test all the features we implement in NetEye 4. As…

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14. 06. 2024 Alessandro Valentini DevOps, NetEye

Automating the Full NetEye Release Procedure

One of the first issues we added more than 2 years ago to our DevOps backlog was automating the infrastructure preparation and release of NetEye, but we postponed it for a long time because it was too big to do. A bit of background Every 2 months we release a new NetEye version: this basically…

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24. 05. 2024 Alessandro Valentini DevOps

OpenShift: How to Check and Reset Ceph Storage in Warning State

Every so often it may happen (in particular after a cluster update or hardware issues) that you see your storage in a warning state on OpenShift. The first thing to do is to check what’s wrong with your cluster: sometimes you may have a real issue, in other cases it may just be a temporary…

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17. 05. 2024 Mattia Codato Development, DevOps, NetEye

Boosting NetEye CI Speed: Test Parallelization

In a previous blog post, we looked at how we sped up certain stages of the NetEye pipeline through parallelization. This boost not only lifted team spirits but, more importantly, ramped up the pace of delivering new features and bug fixes, giving everyone the motivation to keep enhancing the pipeline across different stages. In another…

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25. 03. 2024 Mattia Codato Development, DevOps, NetEye

Boosting NetEye CI Speed Post-FOSDEM ’24

On February 3rd and 4th, 2024, we attended FOSDEM, a major event where thousands of free and open-source software developers from around the world gather to exchange ideas and collaborate. This year I dedicated much of the second day to the Testing and Continuous Delivery room. Continuous testing is essential for ensuring the safe and…

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31. 12. 2023 Damiano Chini Development, DevOps, NetEye

Speeding up the NetEye CI Testing Phase

Over the course of the last few years, we’ve introduced more and more features in NetEye 4. This fact has had a side effect that’s not directly visible to customers, namely that we keep adding more and more tests to the testing phase of the NetEye 4 Continuous Integration pipelines. While this ensures that regression…

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