If you just came across this while running Gitlab CI docker-machine instance, you may need to update the base AMI image used by docker-image as it’s currently using 16.04 (ouch!) Some errors you may find in the logs Error while stopping machine Failed to process runner Unable to query docker…

Seems there’s a bug (or a feature) somewhere in Ansible which doesn’t translate encrypted variables (but it works fine with vault files), so when you try to use them on a template it will fail with the error above. To work around that, you could try setting a fact before hand which will decrypt the secure variable into a new variable. set_fact: pass_decoded: “{{ pass }}” Use the new variable in the template:

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Create user for your Ansible playbook Login as admin (the root user, not a user with admin role) Create a user for your ansible playbook Give it “Grafana Admin permissions” in `/admin/users/edit/:uid` 2. Create a sample playbook like - name: Deploy user/team/folder/dashboard in Grafana for customer hosts: localhost…

Having issues to troubleshoot this error and finding the faulty host? Verbose mode won’t help you, neither will looking at your hosts. One way to go at it, is to run ad-hoc commands, for instance we want to test the variable “ansible_host” which is (or should be) defined in host vars (we use it for templating): ansible -i inventory all -m debug -a "var=hostvars[inventory_hostname].ansible_host" Then you could get grep to filter out the matches like so:

If you just started getting these, upgrade your target system packages. FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "failed to fetch key at https://rpms.remirepo.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi2018 , error was: Request failed: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:618)>"} Personally I was only installing security and bugfixes like - name: Upgrade packages yum: name…

Paying over 4 digits every single month for a simple image resizing service? Finding it difficult to rein in this ballooning expense item? Does your account manager want to lock you down on a yearly contract to save a few percent? Imgix is the typical Silicon Valley startup with VC…

It’s only a matter of time when Ethereum becomes the number one crypto currency and all products are priced in gweis. In some measures Ethereum already beat Bitcoin. In others, it’s well underway to become #1. It’s already doing 6x as many transactions as the Bitcoin network. It has almost as many active wallets as Bitcoin. The hype around NFT and DeFI will only keep growing ETH and leave Bitcoin well behind it’s stagnant growth.

First of all, quickly generate a new read-only API token in https://my.pingdom.com/app/api-tokens Then, use the following code to get a quick export of your Pingdom exports with name, hostname and path. export PINGD_AUTH="[the api key you generated in step 1]" for i in `curl -X GET https://api.pingdom.com/api/3.1/checks -H 'Authorization:Bearer $PINGD_AUTH'…