Ansible 7.5.0 is out now

Since I moved to Stockholm, I hated the weather more than the practice behavior of the Sun. But today, it did some good; it woke me up at 4:40 and felt like 7:00, so I started working. And what a productive day it was :). I have been doing…

Keynote in PyCon Italia, 2023

My friend Dr. Brett Canon [https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbrettcannon/?originalSubdomain=ca], CPython Core Dev, once said, "Came for the language and stayed for the community." It is a little different for me. I Came for the community and stayed for the love of it. I joined…

Women in tech, Stockholm 2023

What does a good day look like? For me, it is the day to spend with friends and doing what I love the most, talking and spreading knowledge about Open Source. Yesterday was one such day. Yesterday was my first-ever Women in Tech Sweden [https://womenintech.se/] event. The first…

Ansible Community Day, India, 2023

Ansible community is not a monolith but a community of communities. We have 20+ sub-projects inside the Ansible ecosystem [https://docs.ansible.com/ecosystem.html]. Sometimes it is nearly impossible to keep track of what is happening on the other part of the project. Ansible Community Days are an initiative…

Running Snowflake proxy

Snowflake [https://snowflake.torproject.org/] is a technology to allow people from all over the world to access censored applications and websites. > Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as…

Bare minimum vim setup for YAML

I am spending my days with Ansible [https://www.ansible.com/] and Kubernetes [https://kubernetes.io/]. This means I am writing YAML [https://yaml.org/] files all day long. I invariably spend a significant portion of my working hours fixing indentations in the YAML files. I am sure this is…

"Python for Everyone": learning Python

I conceptualized "Python for Everyone" to help women who want to start their careers in technology. After the introduction sessions, it was time for us to learn real "Technology". What better to start with than Python? Python 101 Part I in Sunet Sunet [https://www.sunet.…

How to add a renew hook for certbot?

After moving the foss.training [https://foss.training/]server to a new location, we found that TLS certificate was expired. I had looked and figured out that though certbot [https://foss.training/] renewed the certificate, it never reloaded the nginx [https://www.nginx.com/]. Now to make sure that nginx…