Journey of the development of Ansible Collection? (Part 4) Let’s continue from the last part :), please do a quick recap if forgot something about the journey:D.116davinder.medium.com Let’s continue, In this part, I will be covering few things about Ansible Module Utils aka common library or functions to reduce duplication of code. It all started when I decided to write all the modules for AWS which were 190+ modules and almost all of these modules have consistent…

Let’s continue from the last part :), please do a quick recap if you forgot something about the journey :D. Journey of the development of Ansible Collection? (Part 3) I suggest you should read the whole series or at least start with the previous one to get the full context. Below is…116davinder.medium.com Let’s explorer behind the scene stuff for automatic documentation creation for Ansible Collection.

I suggest you should read the whole series or at least start with the previous one to get the full context. Below is the link for the previous article. Journey of the development of Ansible Collection? ( Part 2) I hope you have read the first article for this series.116davinder.medium.com Nov 2020 What is Ansible Collection? It is a set of similar modules which can do a couple of tasks for the…

I hope you have read the first article for this series. Journey of the development of Ansible Collection? ( Part 1 ) This is a story of building 190+ Ansible Modules which are being later combined into one package called…116davinder.medium.com September 2018 First thing, we need to know about the module and its working, let’s take an example code and try to explain what it does for you? Sample Code: mapr_service.py you can treat the ansible module as a python script…

This is a story of building 190+ Ansible Modules which are being later combined into one package called community.missing_collection. Aug 2018 I was working on a Big Data Platform called “MapR” inspired by Apache Hadoop, It had a hell of a lot of components and those were earlier managed by…

How I turned around things for myself and Make Success for Myself. As I mentioned in my second article of this series, my PR was stuck and the Reviewer wasn’t ready to merge because of One line of Code. Story of Unsuccessful PR to Open Source Project! ( Part 2 ) I hope, you have read part 1 of it if not then I would definitely recommend you to read that as well to get full…116davinder.medium.com Situation is still the same so far, Let’s not waste more…

I hope, you have read part 1 of it if not then I would definitely recommend you to read that as well to get the full context of it. Story of Unsuccessful PR to Open Source Project! It’s about the painful and unsuccessful PR to Open Source Ansible Project.116davinder.medium.com Let’s start with the next part of the story, this part will be quite interesting if you are an Ansible Community…

It all started when I was creating a new AWS region deployment for a project, it took me a week to understand the process and implement it but that’s not important for this article, let’s move to an interesting topic. …

Honestly, there aren’t many good backup tools for Apache Kafka but why we need a backup tool in the first place. As Apache Kafka didn’t have any offsite backup solution or DR solutions for it, some tricks can be done but none are 100% reliable. Example Trick: create MM1 cluster…