This blog is a platform for me to share my knowledge in the area of software development.
In this blog, you will learn the basics of Ansible Roles. With Ansible Roles, you can reuse Ansible content you create and share them with other users. You will learn about Ansible Roles step-by-step by means of examples. Enjoy!
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In this post, you will learn how to create an Ansible playbook. As an exercise, you will install an Apache Webserver onto two target machines and change the welcome page.
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Encountered a ‘Permission Denied’ error on a file copied to a Docker image or when accessing a file on a mounted volume within a Docker container? In this blog, you will learn why you get a ‘Permission Denied’ error and how to solve it. Enjoy!
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In this post, you will learn how to set up a basic Ansible Inventory. Besides that, you will learn how to encrypt sensitive information by means of Ansible Vault. Enjoy!
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When you want to experiment with Ansible, you will need to setup a test environment. In this blog, you will create a test environment containing one controller and two target machines. This will give you a good setup for experimenting with Ansible without breaking a real machine.
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In this blog, it is explained how to configure Jenkins Multibranch Pipelines when using Git LFS. This seems to be a non-issue at first sight, but the documentation is quite dispersed and no clear steps can be found how to configure this. Also, a troubleshooting section can be found at the end of the blog.
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A common problem when automating tests are tests which require a visual comparison to a previous state. This can be a very time consuming task when you need to execute many of these testing tasks. But not anymore, the Robot Framework DocTest library comes to the rescue!
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Testing software will tell you something about the quality of your software. But how do you ensure that your tests have a high quality? A static analysis tool can help you in order to improve the quality. Robocop is a such a static analysis tool for Robot Framework tests. In this blog, you will learn how to use and configure Robocop for your purposes.
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Did you ever encounter the problem that your regression test execution time has become so large, that you needed to wait for hours in order to get the results? This is where Pabot comes to the rescue! Pabot enables parallel test execution for your Robot Framework tests. Let’s see how this works!
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Robot Framework supports numerous libraries which can be used out-of-the-box. But what if we need functionality which is custom to our application? In that case, we can write our own custom library. In this post, we will take a look at how we can share keywords between Test Suites and how we can create our own custom Robot Framework library.