GUI solutions for Ansible, such as Red Hat’s Ansible Tower and PagerDuty’s RunDeck, come with a significant license cost, whereas the free versions are limited in features and complicated to install. Developed with ease of use in mind, Semaphore provides a GUI for Ansible with a set of powerful features.

Sometimes, the remote extensions that are installed by Microsoft Visual Code (VS Code) on remote systems can consume high amounts of CPU usage, making it difficult to use the server efficiently. However, my script can help limit the CPU usage of VS Code on a remote server.

Pulumi is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solution similar to Terraform. One advantage of Pulumi is that it allows DevOps engineers to use familiar programming languages to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure. This post demonstrates how to deploy an EC2 instance with Pulumi.

This post will guide you in debugging containerized apps running in Docker using Visual Studio (VS) Code.

You can manage Docker images and containers directly within Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with Microsoft's Docker extension. This article walks you through adding Docker files to a Workspace, creating a containerized application environment, and explains how to build and run Docker containers directly from the VS Code interface.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is gaining popularity as a format for configuration files. Unlike XML or the still-used INI format, editing JSON in a text editor can be tedious and error-prone. However, there are free JSON editors and plugins for Notepad++ that simplify this task.

This article will explain the four ways to upgrade to a new version of Python on a Windows system: installer, Microsoft Store, Winget, and Chocolatey. You will also learn how to use different versions of Python on your system and how to uninstall an old version.

Dev Drive is a new feature in Windows 11 23H2, also included in the preview of Windows Server 2025. It is a drive based on ReFS, specifically designed for the requirements of developers and IT professionals. It offers enhanced control over volume settings and file system filters.

If you want to deploy a web server like Apache or Nginx with Ansible, you can create a playbook outlining the installation and configuration steps. This approach works well for a single web server but can become repetitive and time-consuming if you need to deploy many servers. To streamline the process, you can use Ansible roles to avoid duplicating tasks and make deployment more efficient. To introduce the concept, this post provides a simple example of using Ansible roles.

Docker Desktop is designed for developers working on macOS and Windows. It offers a user-friendly interface for running Docker containers. It uses a lightweight virtual machine (VM) with a Linux kernel in the background so that you can run Linux containers on non-Linux systems. Docker Desktop does a great job hiding all the aspects of the VM under the hood so that Docker containers appear to be running natively on your host computer. Docker Desktop received an update a few days ago, and in this post, we will discuss what's new in Docker Desktop 4.28.

ShellGPT is an AI tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux that integrates OpenAI's GPT with standard command-line interfaces such as PowerShell, CMD, Bash, and Zsh. The AI integrated into your shell can generate shell commands and code snippets directly from the command line. In this guide, I'll walk you through installing ShellGPT, explain how you can use the tool with a local installation of LM Studio, and give examples of how to use ShellGPT.

By default, Ansible uses SSH on Linux machines. Although Windows supports an OpenSSH server, this method is not entirely functional with orchestration tools like Ansible. To enable remote command execution, Ansible uses Windows Remote Management (WinRM) on Windows.

Ansible Facts are essential system information gathered from remote hosts during playbook execution. This information is crucial for making informed decisions before executing any actions. In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to use Ansible Facts to retrieve system information and make deployment decisions using the when conditional statement.

Containers have revolutionized how we develop and deploy applications. However, managing them on your desktop can be a hassle. Podman Desktop is a free and open-source tool that lets you manage containers and Pods using a graphical user interface. In this post, you will learn how to get started with Podman Desktop.

Ansible Vault allows you to encrypt sensitive data such as passwords, keys, and other secrets rather than storing them as plaintext in your playbooks or roles. In this tutorial, I will explain how to use Ansible Vault to encrypt and decrypt data during playbook runtime.

HashiCorp changed Terraform's license from open source to Business-Source License (BSL). Soon after, the open-source fork OpenTofu became available. OpenTofu is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that allows you to define and manage your infrastructure in configuration files. In this post, I demonstrate with a practical example how to create an EC2 instance in AWS with OpenTofu.

GitHub Actions workflows for GitHub Pages just became generally available. GitHub Pages is a service that lets you host static websites on GitHub directly from your repositories. GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform provided by GitHub that allows users to automate their build, test, and deployment pipelines. This article takes you through using custom workflows to deploy static websites to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions workflows.

In a previous post, I covered Podman Desktop, an alternative to Docker Desktop. Today, I will look into Podman 5.0, the latest iteration of Red Hat's free open-source container engine. The new release brings significant enhancements, including revamped container engine code for Windows and macOS, native Apple Hypervisor support, and streamlined image building for Podman farms. Let's explore the new Podman 5.0 features and improvements.

The Kubernetes project recently announced the release of version 1.30, named Uwubernetes. The name "Uwubernetes" is a portmanteau of "Kubernetes" and the "UwU" emoticon, which indicates happiness or cuteness. In this article, I’ll discuss the new key features.