How to break from the loop in Ansible

Generally, it thought to be impossible. But if you really want to, you can.

The problem

To stop Ansible loop if one of the calls to the module returned changed. Basically, to write in Ansnible this:

Choosing between testinfra and Ansible for tests

register in handlers in Ansible

Today I realized that register is available for handler tasks.

So, this is totally doable and have some nice properties of handling idempotence without additional conditionals (which are hard to write and debug).

The dark side of vendoring

What is ‘vendoring’?

Vendoring is a special name when you grab other’s people code and put it inside of yours. There is a lot of subtleties about how this ‘grab’ happens, and, generally, if it’s done by special utility, based on version in a…

Manually triggering ‘merge-only’ workflows in Gitlab

I don’t like to write about proprietary software (which Gitlab, mostly, is). Nevertheless, the pain and discomfort is there, so, I’m writing down clever tricks of avoiding pain.

The problem

Writing tests for docs for tests

Wut? It’s less crazy than you think

We’ve got a heated internal debates about necessity of having QA tests at the end of provisioning on production servers. Should we run infra tests at the end of provisioning or not? I…