Fosdem, 2024

"What, a technology conference has a legal and policy track! This is the conference for me to be in. " That was me in 2017. I dreamed of attending Fosdem but could not attend one (even though my talk was selected). 2024 marked my debutante year in Fosdm. Fosdem…

Ansible 8.3.0 out now

I released the Ansible 8.3.0 on 15th August, 2023. This is the Ansible stable release. You can read the full Changelog here [https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/CHANGELOG-v8.rst] You can install it via pip. python3 -m pip install ansible==8.3.0 --user You…

Two more Ansible Releases

After coming from DevConf.cz [https://www.devconf.info/cz/], on 22nd of June I released Ansible Community Package 7.7.0 and 8.1.0. This is the last release of the Ansible 7 series and first minor release of the Ansible 8 series. Ansible Community Package 7.7.…

Meeting community at PyCon Italy, 2023

The PyCon Italy, 2023 [https://pycon.it/en] discussion started in PyCon Sweden 2022, when Valerio [https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriomaggio/] invited me for the keynote. From disbelief (since my talk at PyCon Sweden [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ea00ykQtE&t=32s] was not good) to believing,…

Ansible Automation Forum for Public Sector organizations

Last Friday 5th of May, the Red Hat Ansible team facilitated an Automation Forum at Arbetsförmedlingen [https://www.linkedin.com/company/arbetsformedlingen/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3Bm1TpLDwjQ2Ort%2Bp2%2F1k6vQ%3D%3D] for Swedish Public sector authorities. We had different public sectors organizations such as Municipalities, Swedish…

Event Driven Ansible, it is

We had our 3rd Ansible Stockholm Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/ansible-stockholm/events/292825770/] on the 3rd of May, 2023, at Sunet [https://sunet.se/]. It was the time to learn about Event Driven Ansible [https://www.ansible.com/use-cases/event-driven-automation]. Wikipedia says Event-driven architecture is a software architecture paradigm…

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…