awesome-docker VS Ansible

When encountering a new technology, search for "awesome" lists on github. There are usually multiple (especially for popular topics), but the best ones usually bubble to the surface. https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker

Looks cool, although how is this any different then say a github repo? Or a repo that contains a list of other repos and project such as the awesome Docker one.

Awesome Docker

That's a very open request. There are a lot of projects available. You can look over Awesome Docker for many types of software. Some are self-contained. Some would expect you to be hosting a database. I would suggest PostgreSQL, as it is very capable and supported by pretty much every project.

prob find a lot of what you're looking for here Awesome Docker

Sorry I don't have read fully a docker book. But you can find something useful from here: https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker

Docker is a great tool to learn for this because everything can run on a single machine and still be isolated from your host OS as lightweight Linux machines: https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker

Haven't had a need to really start/stop a container based on a web call - but you might poke through the Orchestration here https://awesome-docker.netlify.app/ and see if something fits.

Ansible v2.16

Ansible is a tool used to help manage software automation processes, configuration management across machines, deployment as well as remote execution of commands and scripts. In sports, Ansible operates as the coach of your team by providing strategies (playbooks), and actions, and ensuring the smooth execution of tasks across your infrastructure, just like a coach guides and directs players (Servers)during a game.

They support for-if from python, too: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#loop-f... but I haven't tried the "recursive" keyword to know if ansible supports that. I say "ansible supports that" because they don't just drop jinja2 into ansible and call it a draw, they have a bunch of custom execution integrations: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.3/lib/ansible/...

To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck

In this article's context, it is simply a tool that provides a declarative way to automate your machine/OS to configure the development machine as you want (install package, modify the configuration, etc). Examples of these tools are Ansible, Puppet, etc.

Now we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)

In the lab to follow, we'll quickly provision a 3-node kubeadm cluster (1 master, 2 workers) on the cloud provider of your choice using an automation stack comprised of OpenTofu and Ansible, then deploy Rook Ceph using the official Helm charts and confirm that we are now able to successfully create CSI volume snapshots from PVCs by reusing the MinIO example from our last article.

Ansible-Core ↗