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How to Use Ansible Roles to Abstract your Infrastructure Environment — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible Roles to Abstract your Infrastructure Environment

This tutorial will explore how to create roles with templates and static files. Once you are familiar with the fundamentals of building roles, we’ll use [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/) to incorporate community contributed roles into playbooks. By the end of this tutorial you will be able to create your own environment specific roles for your servers and use them in your own playbooks.

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How to Set Up Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack Integration on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack Integration on RHEL 8

Alertmanager handles alert routing, deduplication, and notification dispatch for Prometheus. By integrating it with Slack and PagerDuty, your team receives real-time notifications through familiar channels while on-call engineers get paged for critical incidents. This tutorial walks through installing Alertmanager on RHEL 8, configuring receivers for both platforms, setting up routing logic, and verifying the setup […]

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SLES 15 — libgnomesu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libgnomesu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 6 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1946 Upstream summary: gnomesu-pam-backend in libgnomesu 1.0.0 prints an error message but proceeds with the non-error code path upon failure of the setgid or setuid […]

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Debian 9 — mupdf — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — mupdf — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 6 June 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14685 CVE-2017-15587 CVE-2017-17866 CVE-2018-6544 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches […]

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Arch Linux — wesnoth — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — wesnoth — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201807-15 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1999023 Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary code execution. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.14.3-1. Fixed in: 1.14.4-1. Group: AVG-741. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – netplan apply fails due to YAML syntax error – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — log4net — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — log4net — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4699-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1285 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Log4net incorrectly handled certain configuration files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. Table of […]

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