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Published inNov 2023
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Damian Wojsław
Damian Wojsław
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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz
Grzegorz Adamowicz
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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Ansible

In this section, we are going to introduce you to Ansible, our tool of choice when it comes to CaC.

Ansible is a tool written for managing the configuration of systems and devices. It is written in Python and its source code is freely available to anyone for downloading and modification (within the limits of its license, which is Apache License 2.0). The name “Ansible” comes from Ursula K. Le Guin’s book Rocannon’s World and denotes a device that allows instantaneous communication no matter the distance.

Some interesting characteristics of Ansible are set out here:

  • Modularity: Ansible is not a monolithic tool. Rather, it’s a core program with each task it knows how to perform written as a separate module—a library, if you will. Since this was the design from the start, it produced a clean API that anyone can use to write their own modules.
  • Idempotence: No matter how many times you perform a configuration, the result...
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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
Read more about Damian Wojsław

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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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