Start using Ansible Vault is pretty easy. As usual, there is no magic here, you keep the key in mind or a file somewhere. If you keep it in mind doesn’t sound very practical because you are trying to automate tasks without human intervention and either way you don’t want to type that long key each time. …
I’ve been asked about how to automate a network configuration backup and I read a lot of articles on the internet, but I didn’t find a simple, quick, complete and free setup. So, I made this one. You only need a Linux with Python3 (installed by default) check your version with: $ python3 –version or …
Automation Bots can help IT operations teams day-to-day work, and enhance the interaction between customers and IT members in a standard, fast, and secure way. (Check the use cases from my previous posts, and new ones to come.) Just keep it simple! That’s the key to also enable easy adoption, a low learning curve, easy …
Find out how you can tremendously simplify IT support no matter where or when. Using an always online Bot per technology now is simple, straightforward and free. You can even chat with it from your cell phone. Continuing with this saga of posts. Now let’s dive into deep technical use cases. I will do it …
You don’t need a big budget to look smart and efficient. ChatOps and automation bots is easier than you tought. For who? This post could be helpful to any kind company and size: IT related and non-IT related, service provider, from small to large, the scenario is the same. The big difference with medium to …
This is getting extremely fun. After doing some testing with Ansible and Salt, the new integrant of the Netor family is Slack. Yes, a chat platform, and I am going to show how much this can add to the game. By adding some Python to parse the inputs and outputs from Slack and Ansible, it …