How to pass password to Ansible from environment variable

There is an idea that passing secrets via environment variables is more safe, than passing it via command line.

Ansible has few methods to accept password:

• Store it somewhere in…

Non-web-based CI tool for CLI

I need help and ideas

Today it’s not a ‘happy discovery’ post, I have nothing to share. Instead, I’m asking for advice and for ideas, no matter how daring they are.

The problem

Timezone on remote server

There is a well-established idea that servers don’t have a timezone. They all are UTC. Period.

But… When you log in, you want to see a reasonable time. Yes, you can see current time and do some estimations, but it’s tedious. Today I realized, that GNU C…

Crazy ansible tricks: pass tasklist through stdin

Sometime I want to do crazy things. Behold!

cat tasks.yml | ansible -i localhost, -m import_tasks -a /dev/stdin

If you want, you can pass tasklist into ansible (not the ansible-playbook!), and…