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…

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.…

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 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…

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…

How to use Network Time Security on your system

But what is Network Time Security (NTS)? To understand NTS, first we have to get familiar with NTP. NTP, Network Time Protocol is a networking protocol for clock synchronization. In simple terms this protocol helps your system to get correct time. RFC 5905 [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5905]…

Dgplug summer training, 2022

dgplug summer training 2022 [https://foss.training/] will start at 13:00 UTC, 25th July. This is our 15th edition. Following our tradition, we have updated and modified our training based on the feedback from the old participants and community at large. There shall be more experiments for the betterment…

Update on foss.training infrastructure

This summer we are having 15th edition of Dgplug [https://dgplug.org/] summer training. July, 2022 is when the training begins. It was a long due task on me to revamp the infrastructure. Website update Our foss.training [https://foss.training/] website is now all ready with it’s new…