22 articles tagged with Ansible.
One is agentless and Python-based, the other two run a persistent agent and a domain-specific language. The architecture difference matters more than the syntax.
Terraform provisions infrastructure and Ansible configures machines, so pitting them against each other is the wrong question to ask.
Install Ansible, write your first playbook, and configure a remote server (nginx + a deploy user) without touching it manually. The basics that scale up.
Step-by-step debugging of a production Linux server hitting 100% CPU. From top to perf to the actual fix.
A practical systemd drop-in guide built from a real operations problem: vendor unit files kept changing, but the team still needed consistent restart, environment, and logging behavior.
A practical systemd reliability guide for Linux services, built around repeated restart-loop incidents and the unit-file patterns that finally made those services boring.
A production-tested Linux patch management workflow for teams that need security fixes without turning every maintenance window into a gamble.
Idempotent Ansible means you can run a playbook twice and the second run does nothing. Here is how we get there, and where we stopped fighting it.
We run mostly on AWS but use GCP for specific workloads. The honest cost-benefit analysis of multi-cloud, plus the patterns that make it not awful.
A different angle on DR: the planning process — RTO/RPO conversations, dependency mapping, and what we learned about prioritizing what to recover.
We cut our largest playbook's runtime from 14 minutes to 4 minutes. The specific changes that mattered, plus the ones that didn't.
We tried Pulumi for a quarter and went back to Terraform. Both are real options. Why we picked one and what would change our mind.
