My colleague, @FrostyX, recently shared a Red Hat Developer article, Thousands of PyPI and RubyGems RPMs now available for RHEL 9, with us.
TL;DR access thousands of RPMs automatically generated from PyPI and RubyGems on RHEL 9.
Sounds intriguing, I wanted to give it a shot.
…I blogged recently which means I need to do it again before another year of silence 😁
So… containers, we know them for years now but they still tend to cause us problems thanks to the extra layers of abstraction, storage and… Networking.
…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.
…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.
…PoC Definition: Can ansible-bender run inside an OpenShift origin pod?
Answer: Yes!
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a project we call “Ansible OCI image builder”. I named the tool itself ansible-bender (and yes, it’s shiny).
…I’m pleased to announce that
ansible-bender is now
available in version 0.2.0.