Questions tagged [automation]
Automation is the process of building or integrating software that takes a manual or laborious task and brings it under machine control, thus reducing labour. Use this tag to describe questions that are about automation.
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Rundeck Community alternative sugestion
I’m using the Rundeck community version on a VM to mainly run remote scheduled commands. There are many and on several different remote servers and some of them run every minute.
The problem I’ve been ...
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Automating Jenkins Pipeline Creation and Configuration Updates
I have multiple pipelines that I need to update each time the version of my program changes. Is it possible to create Jenkins pipelines (instead of clicking + New Item in UI) or update them (for ...
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why does my Ansible playbook throw "Found existing installation: requests 2.25.1\n\n:stderr:ERROR: Cannot uninstall requests 2.25.1"?
I'm trying to run an ansible playbook that installs docker and docker-compose and runs a compose file on a ec2 t2.micro.
To use the docker modules in ansible, I need to have docker and docker-compose ...
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How to create a bot user for an organization in GitLab?
Background: In GitLab it is possible to create bot users for projects and for groups. A project bot can only access one project by using one access token and a group bot can only access the projects ...
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How is 'self-healing' to be reconciled with Infrastructure as Code?
As a relative newcomer to the developments happening in Operations - DevOps, SRE, etc. - I'm struggling with a big-picture problem. The following is a specific example, using a network load-balancer.
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Work item rules in Azure DevOps board: Parent STATUS (custom field) dependent on child STATUS
I'm working in Azure DevOps and have some organisational restrictions so instead of using "State" we will use a custom field "Status" with 6 options:
On Track
Delayed
Pending
Done
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How can you do pre-merge testing in trunk based development?
Currently, we use a simple branching strategy, with a single main branch and one layer of feature branches; no branches on branches on branches. We also have many pipelines that run against each PR to ...
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Continuous integration of an operating system
I want to hire a VPS but my problem is that most if not all of the VPS companies out there expect me to work with it as is and if I want to majorly upgrade it, I must, backup everything I have added ...
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How to check the status of Ethernet port using ansible?
I want to check status of Ethernet port whether it is up or down on remote server using Ansible?
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What do skipped, rescued, and ignored results mean in ANSIBLE playbook execution?
What do skipped, rescued, and ignored results mean in an Ansible playbook execution?
What would be a possible scenario where these results would be different from 0?
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Dynamic environments per client, which is the best approach, if any?
I don't know how to explain this problem better, but I'll try to explain it clearly:
Where I work our customers are companies, with lots of users
We offer a SaaS solution for them to manage stuff
For ...
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How to add a string to a line when it doesn't exist?
I'm trying to solve a problem where I want to add a setting 'pci=noaer' to all kernel definitions in /boot/grub/grub.conf, but only if the setting doesn't exist. I've managed to get the basic ...
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What is a good strategy to reliably and automatically perform remote system tests of a web service?
In a company I work for, we have deployed many services: a major part of them are small and rather rarely used, but an outage would be a problem nonetheless. At some point I realized that manual ...
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java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: no known implementation of class jenkins.tasks.SimpleBuildWrapper is named BuildUser in jenkins
I preparing script in Jenkins as below where I getting error while build job. This job is send email to user for input for next step.
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
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Auto build and upload to AWS new docker image after commit in repo
I'm new at DevOps, and I looking for solution to my problem.
I have a private code repository where I have a some Flask apps in one of many folders. Example of structure:
- Project
-- Django Apps
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