We have published a few videos in the IaC Avengers YouTube channel about automation using Ansible and how this can be integrated into an ITSM tool like ServiceNow to provide a cloud-like experience for private infrastructure. In the last two videos we have even demonstrated how to treat […]
This will be a quick one. I was recently experimenting with creating an S3 bucket GCP using Ansible and I came across this error: After seeing “Permission Denied” I naturally started to look at the roles that were assigned to the account . I discovered later that the […]
In the world of software development, Murphy’s law holds an unassailable truth: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. As a proud member of this masochistic club, you might be looking for innovative ways to stall your Kubernetes enterprise rollout. Maybe you want to add a little […]
Kubernetes keeps increasing in popularity and not just in public cloud. It keeps making inroads into the on-premises market. This is creating the need for automation. In many Kubernetes environments you tend to find developers using CI/CD pipelines not just for their applications code for the Kubernetes objects […]
This is part 2 of a small series we started to show some techniques that allow us to build a hierarchy of dashboards with Grafana. In the first part we learnt how to create links both at the panel and at the dashboard level. In this article we […]
It took a while to decide the title of this post but I am still unsure whether it conveys the purpose of the post. The point is that we all start our Grafana journey by creating some cool graphs in a dashboard, but after a while we typically […]
Grafana has become a very popular tool for monitoring systems and applications partly due to the amount of features and integrations it provides. The graphs it produces are beautiful. However sometimes you need to show a string or a value instead of a full graph. For that purpose […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (6th Part) of this blog series, we discussed how to prepare Ansible Tower/AWX with Dell EMC storage credentials. In this blog post, we will install Dell EMC PowerStore collection on Ansible AWX and go […]
There are many use cases where VxRAIL manager, VMware vCenter Console, or vSuite will not be enough for your goals in mind. So, for monitoring and management of your VxRAIL cluster, you can utilize the VxRAIL REST API for achieving your end goal in mind. There are multiple […]
In this article we will explore how to create incidents in ServiceNow using the REST API. This article was a stepping stone for this video that shows how to integrate ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams and alerts from infrastructure. You might also be interested in the second post in this […]