Edition: Saturday, July 6th, 2024

As you begin creating playbooks to automate your work, you'll soon discover they can become many 100s of lines of YAML. 

Ansible Roles, allow you to group tasks, variables, handlers, and other artifacts.  Today, I'll focus on an example role...

Edition: Saturday, June 29th, 2024

Storing passwords in plain text files is a big problem.  Such as the SA password when working with SQL Server.   But how do you automate the installation of SQL Server and store the password securely?

If you're using Ansible, it's...

If you've ever opened up an autounattend.xml (answer file) for a Windows installation, you may have more questions than answers about what you're looking at.  

XML isn't the easiest markup language to read.  Let's take a look at what they are and then jump into a...