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Introducing: The AWX Collection

Ansible Content Collections are a new way of distributing content, including modules, for Ansible. For detailed information on how to use collections in general, please read Colin McNaughton’s blog post about the topic.  

The AWX Collection allows Ansible Playbooks to interact with AWX and Ansible Tower. Much like interacting with AWX or Red Hat Ansible Tower via the web-based UI or the API, the modules provided by the AWX Collection are another way to create, update or delete objects as well as perform tasks such as run jobs, configure Ansible Tower and more. This article will discuss new updates regarding this collection, as well as an example playbook and details on how to run it successfully.

The AWX Collection awx.awx is the upstream community distribution available on Ansible Galaxy.  The downstream supported Ansible Collection ansible.tower is being targeted for mid-May on Automation Hub alongside the release of Ansible Tower 3.7.  For more details on the difference between Ansible Galaxy and Automation Hub please refer to Ajay Chenampara’s blog post.

This collection is a replacement for the Ansible Tower web modules which were previously housed and maintained directly in the Ansible repo. The modules were Continue reading

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Key Factors in Attracting and Retaining Talent

Yesterday I posted a tweet on company culture that received a lot of positive feedback:

I've been working for the same company, Conscia, for more than five years now. This thread will describe why I have stayed and will help managers and leaders to understand how you can keep high performers around.

This is going to take a number of tweets.

— Daniel Dib (@danieldibswe) May 3, 2020

People thought this should be saved in a blog post, so this is it.

Company Culture

Do you want to attract and retain talent and high performers? Of course you do. Do you understand how to do that and are you willing to change your company culture?

Everything starts with culture. You may have heard the quote “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”, meaning that even the best stratety can’t compete with a company that has a great culture. Strategy without culture does not create success.

Gimmicks Are Not Culture

Most companies, such as the web scalers, often confuse gimmicks with culture. We have great company culture! We have ping pong tables, flipper games and even artists who play music for us! While these things can be entertaining, don’t mistake them for culture. Continue reading

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The Week in Internet News: Classroom in a Car

Searching for a signal: CNN has a story about a teacher in rural Virginia who drives 20 minutes to find a good WiFi signal in order to work. The middle school history teacher is one of about 18 million U.S. residents who lack access to high-speed broadband, according to the Federal Communications Commission. The teacher “lives in a valley between two mountains, where the only available home internet option is a satellite connection. Her emails can take 30 seconds to load, only to quit mid-message. She can’t even open files on Google Drive, let alone upload lesson modules or get on a Zoom call with colleagues.”

Demanding access: Meanwhile, in Oakland, California, hundreds of teachers and students are calling for free access to the Internet, demanding that the school district and mayor “take all necessary measures” to ensure that students have access, KTVU reports. “There is no equity in education for our most vulnerable students if all Oakland families do not have access to the internet,” said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, said.

Legislating access: In the U.S. Congress, Senate Democrats are introducing a bill that would create a new $4 billion fund for schools Continue reading

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PATCHBOX Setup.exe Review

Over the past few months, while browsing social media, I came across an ad for the PATCHBOX Setup.exe and it …

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Explore: BGP in Data Center Fabrics

Got mentioned in this tweet a while ago:

Watching @ApstraInc youtube stream regarding BGP in the DC with @doyleassoc and @jtantsura.Maybe BGP is getting bigger and bigger traction from big enterprise data centers but I still see an IGP being used frequently. I am eager to have @ioshints opinion on that hot subject.

Maybe I’ve missed some breaking news, but assuming I haven’t my opinion on that subject hasn’t changed.

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Time in Suzieq

Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, while I looked around for my possibilities - Simon & Garfunkel One of the powerful features of Suzieq is the ability to observe the state of the network at a time in the past, or to play back changes in state in...

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Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — April 2020

AT&T selected Stankey as its new CEO; Google to slow hiring; Cisco vowed no job cuts; plus the...

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Getting Started with Cluster API using Docker

Cluster API (CAPI) is a relatively new project aimed at deploying Kubernetes clusters using a declarative API (think YAML). The official documentation (a.k.a. the Cluster API book), does a very good job explaining the main concepts and goals of the project. I always find that one of the best ways to explore new technology is to see how it works locally, on my laptop, and Cluster API has a special “Docker” infrastructure provider (CAPD) specifically for that. However, the official documentation for how to setup a docker managed cluster is very poor and fractured. In this post, I’ll try to demonstrate the complete journey to deploy a single CAPI-managed k8s cluster and provide some explanation of what happens behind the scene so that its easier to troubleshoot when things go wrong.

Prerequisites

Two things must be pre-installed before we can start building our test clusters:

• kind - a tool to setup k8s clusters in docker containers, it will be used as a management (a.k.a. bootstrap) cluster.
• clusterctl - a command line tool to interact with the management cluster.

We’re gonna need run a few scripts from the Cluster API Github repo, so let’s get a copy Continue reading

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Heavy Networking 515: A Decade of Network Podcasting

In this brief chat, Ethan & Greg discuss where we came from and where we are going. Note the retro music we used and check out outtro too.

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Heavy Networking 515: A Decade of Network Podcasting

In this brief chat, Ethan & Greg discuss where we came from and where we are going. Note the retro music we used and check out outtro too.

The post Heavy Networking 515: A Decade of Network Podcasting appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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CloudGenix Key to Palo Alto Networks SASE Play

Palo Alto networks purchased CloudGenix at the end of March for $420 million in a bid to bolster...

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Our Work to Make the Internet for Everyone Marches On

Over the past several months the Internet Society has been working on a transaction to sell Public Interest Registry (PIR), operator of .ORG and other top-level domains, to Ethos Capital. Under PIR’s registry agreements, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had to consent to this indirect change of control. ICANN has now announced that it does not consent to the transaction. 

I am, of course, disappointed by ICANN’s decision, though I am pleased it was finally reached. ICANN took much longer than it should have done to vote on the transaction. In my view, ICANN stepped outside its remit by acting as a regulator it was never intended to be.  What began as a routine change of indirect control – the type ICANN has expeditiously approved on multiple occasions in the past – resulted in months and months of review and analysis. The outcome does not seem consistent with ICANN’s prior decisions in similar cases. It should concern  the Internet community that ICANN has shown itself to be much more susceptible to political pressure than its limited mandate would recommend.

Nevertheless, ICANN has now rendered a clear decision. This brings to a close a period Continue reading

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Daily Roundup: AWS Q1 Tops $10B Revenue

AWS topped $10 billion in Q1; Cisco squashed yet another SD-WAN bug; and Fortinet CISO talked...

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AWS Weathers The Coronavirus Storm

With much of the world in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not a surprise that much of the attention that is being paid to Amazon’s financial results for the first quarter of 2020 focused on its online retail operation, which is literally a lifeline to many in the United States, and the massive warehousing and shipping infrastructure behind it. …

AWS Weathers The Coronavirus Storm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Verizon Virtualization Efforts Vanquished COVID-19 Chaos

“If we hadn't done virtualization, this would have been a multi-week, multi-month effort to bring...

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Cisco Squashes Yet Another SD-WAN Bug

While Cisco says it is not aware of any malicious use of the vulnerability, with 20,000 customers...

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AWS Revenue Tops $10B in Q1, Bezos Pledges Q2 Profit on COVID-19 Spend

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company will spend $4 billion or more — all of its expected...

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Heavy Networking 514: Aruba’s Vision Extends From The Data Center To The Edge (Sponsored)

On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we talk about building a unified network infrastructure with Aruba. Best known for wireless, Aruba also has a portfolio of data center and campus switches, SD-WAN, and an access control and policy enforcement system to bring it all together. Our guests are Keerti Melkote, Aruba President and Founder; and Michael Dickman, Senior Vice President and GM of Switching.

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Heavy Networking 514: Aruba’s Vision Extends From The Data Center To The Edge (Sponsored)

On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we talk about building a unified network infrastructure with Aruba. Best known for wireless, Aruba also has a portfolio of data center and campus switches, SD-WAN, and an access control and policy enforcement system to bring it all together. Our guests are Keerti Melkote, Aruba President and Founder; and Michael Dickman, Senior Vice President and GM of Switching.

The post Heavy Networking 514: Aruba’s Vision Extends From The Data Center To The Edge (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Service Mesh Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg