Ansible is used to do so many things. And if you already use Ansible for your automation tasks then you already have it ready to go. So why not use Ansible to test network connectivity?
Using a dynamic Dockerfile can have great benefits when used in your CI/CD pipeline. You can use the ARG statement in your Dockerfile to pass in a variable at build time. Even use a variable in the FROM statement!
Buttons Everywhere! But not just normal buttons.. These are some cool buttons. Buttons from a simpler time perhaps.
WordPress 5.3 has a new default theme called Twenty Twenty. Like all new things on the web, we get more space around everything. We also get MASSIVE fonts! Along with a narrow area to show all the text content, and embedded fonts which waste bandwidth. It’s not all bad though. And we can fix it!
Running your own WordPress site can have it’s challenges. What if you could have all the benefits of WordPress, and also all the benefits of a static site? WordPress as a static site is the answer.
WordPress has a built-in search feature which allows a site using self-hosted WordPress to search local pages and posts, and then display the results on the site. What if you want to use an external search engine like DuckDuckGo to do this instead?
Malicious code and abandoned websites are increasingly becoming more of a problem. It’s a serious issue in terms of privacy and security.
TL;DR: Website owners: Be careful when using third-party code that you don’t control.
Users: Hope for the best! Use a content blocker browser add-on like uBlock Origin. On your mobile device use Firefox with uBlock Origin.
Ansible is a great tool to automate all the things. Another task it can help to automate is user management. This guide will be talking specifically about user management on Linux servers like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Ubuntu. Ansible can handle this task!
Ansible can use encrypted files, using a feature called Ansible Vault. This is great for sensitive information that you don’t want to store as a normal text file since you are able to encrypt this data in your souce control.