Tag: automation

Ansible, Puppet, Salt, and Chef all do configuration management, but they're very different. Pick the right one before you commit.

Speed up Ansible playbooks with pipelining, forks, fact caching, and async tasks, stop watching the spinning wheel on every play.

Automate Docker container deployment with shell scripts, cron, and Ansible, stop SSHing in and restarting things by hand.

Remove spaces and special characters from filenames using bash loops, rename, find, and parameter expansion tricks.

Master bash for loops, while loops, and seq for sequential counting, iterate over files, ranges, and arrays without losing your mind.