Ansible Collections: init
sshnaidm gave me an opportunity to play with Ansible Collections today.
Since I was at AnsibleFest 2019 in Atlanta, I heard so much about the collections but never actually used them.
Debugging Python Code
People on my team asked me some time ago how I debug things in our python code base. So I thought I’d share here.
The easiest (and least efficient) way to debug is to use print statements and
logging. But since you’re not using a real debugger, you need to update the
code and rerun in order to get new results.
Hence the most efficient way to debug things in python is to use a debugger. Don’t be scared, they are easy to master and they’ll serve you nicely for the rest of your life. They all are very similar.
Building container images from scratch using Ansible
This blog post is a guide coming from ansible-bender#49 issue.
Okay, let’s start.
Building from scratch, what does it mean? It’s very simple: your base image is an empty directory:
Git magic: split repository into two
We’ve just hit this point in our project (packit) that we want to split it to two repositories: CLI tool and a web service. I was thinking of keeping the git history for files I want to move to the other repository. There is a ton tutorials and guides how to do such a thing. This is what worked for me: Clone the original repository. Have a list of files I want to remove:
Updating a group of packages on Gentoo
I wanted to update my gentoo box once again. I did last update probably ~6 months ago. This usually means for me that I get a ton of conflicts:
Ansible-bender reaches 0.5.0
Exciting times! I just released ansible-bender-0.5.0.
This update contains a ton of new stuff. There is the one feature I am very proud of — configuring the build process by using Ansible variables. Apart from that, I did a lot of bug fixes and usability improvements.
Ansible Bender in OKD #2
tl;dr
PoC Definition: Can ansible-bender run inside an OpenShift origin pod?
Answer: Yes!