Written by Ross Tuck
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on May. 14, 2014
Ansible has excellent documentation but one thing I was confused about was the best way to store the configuration for multistage projects: say, different passwords for dev, staging, production. This isn’t really covered in the ansible-examples repo because it’s specific to your project and while…
Written by Ross Tuck
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on May. 11, 2014
When writing Ansible playbooks, it’s useful to test them locally against your Vagrant box. The easiest way is just running “vagrant provision” after each change and then validating the results on the vagrant image. That said, this runs the entire playbook in full and while I enjoy a good cup of tea…
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on May. 9, 2014
Since Ubuntu 14.04 is released, and most of the kinks are worked out, I wanted to let you know how I see Vaprobash moving forward. A New Repository Vaprobash is moving onto Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, where it will stay until 16.04 LTS (if it's still relevant then). Some people still need Ubuntu 12.04, and…
Written by Cal Evans
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on May. 7, 2014
Dear Reader, I know a lot of PHP developers writing books. One thing I have noticed about the authors of the books I have looked at – and not just about books I have written – is that many of us are better programmers than writers. I am particularly horribly at spelling and grammar, as […] The post…