We are really excited to announce the release of Galaxy 1.1. It’s only been a few short weeks since Galaxy 1.0 debuted, and here we are again!
This time we added some powerful enhancements to make searching Ansible roles a much better experience. With over 3,500 roles in Galaxy and more being added every day, it can be a real challenge to sift through platforms, categories and descriptions to find exactly what you need. In Galaxy 1.1 we solved this problem.
As the author of a role, you know better than we do how to describe the role and what terms users will search to discover the role. So to make describing roles better for authors and users, we replaced our limited set a categories with Galaxy Tags, allowing the author to add a list of free-form search terms to a role.
Let’s take a quick look at creating a role with Galaxy and using the new Galaxy Tags feature. We start by creating a role using the ansible-galaxy command line utility that comes installed with Ansible:
ansible-galaxy init ansible-role-myrole
This creates the following directory structure and some supporting files for the new role:
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UnetLab, or the Unified Networking Lab, is a virtual lab for networking engineers. An alternative to GNS3 and Cisco VIRL, it aims to be easy to use. Find out its unique features and how to get started with a lab project.
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One of my readers sent me this question after listening to the podcast with Douglas Comer:
Professor Comer mentioned that IP choose a network attachment address model over an endpoint model because of scalability. He said if you did endpoint addressing it wouldn’t scale. I remember reading a bunch of your blog posts about CNLP (I hope I’m remembering the right acronym) and I believe you liked endpoint addressing better than network attachment point addressing.
As always, the answer is “it depends” (aka “we’re both right” ;).
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As a supplement to the Back to Basics: Power article, I created this cheat sheet to stow away for a rainy day. Next time you need to remember how to calculate wattage, or need to look up a foreign power connector, this will be a handy tool.
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In this article I will be walking through some of the elements of power design and management in a context relevant to IT engineers. Although we, as IT-centric engineers, may only deal with electrical power systems once in a while, it can be very useful to understand the principles at work and come in handy […]
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This pause in cloud spending could last two years, says EMC CEO.
Amid a solid Q3 report, Mark Templeton gets replaced.
A concession to AWS and Azure; a handoff to Trend Micro.
Dell's founder says the EMC deal would make everything wonderful, of course.