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Ansible & Friends, Issue 68

October 11, 2017

My New KubeRocker Pro Newsletter

Hobbyists often fail at basic competency when it comes to securing and scaling containers in hostile real-world environments.

KubeRocker Pro keeps you on top of Docker, Kubernetes, and related tools in high scale, high security scenarios.

If you've followed my writing in the past, you know I've been wary of the early container movement due to the many issues with managing and securing containers in a production environment.

Fortunately, things matured over the next few years and tools like Kubernetes and Anchore could solve a lot of those orchestration and security issues.

Tools

• ansigenome: A tool to help you gather info on your Ansible roles

Containers

• Faster Builds with Ansible Container 0.9.2
• How to manage Linux containers with Ansible Container
• Approaches to Configuration Management: Chef, Ansible, and Kubernetes

Discussion

• Is it just me, or does working with Ansible kind of suck?

Tips & Tricks

• Is there a way to block/rescue my entire playbook?
• Example of Networking Inventory with Ansible

CI/CD

• CI for Ansible playbooks which require Ansible Vault protected variables
• Automated Servers and Deployments with Ansible & Jenkins

Ansible Updates

• Ansible 2.4 "Dancing Days"

Docker Security with Anchore

Anchore was a free open-source tool for security scanning Docker images so critical vulnerabilities would not get introduced into production systems.