How to build enterprise OS Images with Packer? Part-1 Why should you even care about Packer when everything is a container in today’s overhyped software world? I understand…116davinder.medium.com Let me explain, how images will be built with previously mentioned requirements and also consider scalability, Isolation and better debugging. Meanings of above shown colourful boxes 1. Vendor OS Image is any OS Image that the original vendor provides like we download ISO from Ubuntu or aws-images aka vanilla. 2. Global OS…

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In this article, I will try to share the approach and Automation which can handle the upgrade of Apache Zookeeper. I hope, you are already using automation created by me if not still the approach can help you do the job. 116davinder/zookeeper-cluster-ansible Fully Managed Apache Zookeeper Cluster with Ansible & Terraform. - 116davinder/zookeeper-cluster-ansiblegithub.com Please don’t take this article as the only source…

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…