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How To Test Your Ansible Deployment with InSpec and Kitchen — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Test Your Ansible Deployment with InSpec and Kitchen

InSpec is an open-source auditing and automated testing framework used to describe and test for regulatory concerns, recommendations, or requirements. It is designed to be human-readable and platform-agnostic. In this tutorial, you’ll write tests for your Ansible playbooks running on a the cloud provider Ubuntu 18.04 Droplet. You’ll use Kitchen as the test-runner and InSpec for writing the tests. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to test your Ansible playbook deployment.

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Einführung in das Konfigurationsmanagement mit Ansible — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Einführung in das Konfigurationsmanagement mit Ansible

Konfigurationsmanagement ist die Verwaltung von Änderungen in einem System auf eine Weise, die dauerhafte Integrität gewährleistet. Dazu werden in der Regel Tools und Prozesse verwendet, die für Automatisierung und Beobachtbarkeit sorgen. Das Konzept wurde zwar nicht in der…

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How To Troubleshoot Terraform — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Troubleshoot Terraform

Similarly to developing with other programming languages and frameworks, setting log levels in Terraform to gain insight into its internal workflows with the necessary verbosity is a feature that can help you when troubleshooting. In this tutorial, you’ll verify that variables always have sensible values and you’ll specify exactly which versions of providers and modules you need to prevent conflicts.

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3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime

As businesses and other organizations increasingly depend on internet-based services, attention is being focused on creating reliable infrastructure that minimizes costly downtime. In this article, we will discuss three areas where improvements could lead to less downtime for your organization. These areas are monitoring and alerting, software deployments, and high availability.

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An Introduction to Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting

Understanding the state of your infrastructure and systems is essential for ensuring the reliability and stability of your services. In this guide, we will discuss what metrics, monitoring, and alerting are. We will talk about why they are important, what types of opportunities they provide, and the type of data you may wish to track. We will be introducing some key terminology along the way and will end with a short glossary of some other terms you might come across while exploring this space.

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