Kyllästyimme Edenred-korttien latauksen kankeuteen ja automatisoimme latausprosessin. Tässä artikkelissa kerrotaan, miten automaatio toteutettiin CSV-tiedostoilla ja ohjelmistorobotilla. Lisäksi artikkelista löytyy linkit GitHub-sivustollemme, josta voit ladata koodit käyttöösi. Edenred-korttien lataustapoja Edenred on yksi suurimmista suomalaisista työsuhde-etujen tarjoajista. Edenred tarjoaa fyysisiä ja virtuaalisia kortteja, joihin voidaan ladata työntekijöiden lounas-, virike- ja työmatkaetuja. Edenred-korttien lataamiseen on lukuisia tapoja, mutta […]
What does it do, this Keycloak thing? Dear seasoned keycloacker, as you probably know, keycloak is a stable, scalable, programmable and otherwise killer platform to centralize all your identity, authentication and authorization needs. It supports standard protocols such as: If you are on the business side of things and worry about support, continuity, standardization, compliance, […]
Causes for the Terraform AWS UnauthorizedOperation errors Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool you can use to configure Cloud resources in AWS. When using Terraform AWS provider you frequently run into various UnauthorizedOperation errors when creating, modifying or deleting resources. That happens unless you do what you should not do and let Terraform use […]
Introduction AWS recommends that you disable S3 bucket ACLs for all new buckets. To understand why some background information is needed. AWS S3 providers two ways to manage access to S3 buckets and objects: AWS combines IAM policies and ACLs to figure out the effective access control rules for objects in an S3 bucket. The […]
It's time for a brief rant about Microsoft Teams. Before we start I'll state that Teams is probably an ok platform for collaboration when you work for just one organization. But when you need to work with multiple organizations, each with their own Teams, you immediately run into a world of hurt. There are two […]
This article shows you how to convert a hash into JSON in Puppet using a simple ERB template that gets its data from Hiera. Suppose you have this data in Hiera: Converting a hash into a JSON file on the target node is surprisingly easy. First look up the data: Then create a simple ERB […]
You are 100% sure that all your Terraform resources are using terraform-provider-azurerm, yet Terraform attempts to download the deprecated "azure" provider: You grep the state file and find no references to the "azure" provider. You assume that the cause is some nested module that depends on it, but no, that's not it. You run "terraform […]
What is Azure Private DNS? Azure Private DNS is a DNS service for Azure virtual networks. You can register a private DNS zone to Azure Private DNS and then link that zone with one or more virtual networks. If you enable DNS auto-registration for a virtual network, a new resource (e.g. virtual machines and VPN […]
What are Ansible modules? Ansible modules provide the infrastructure as code building blocks for your Ansible roles, plays and playbooks. Modules manage things such as packages, files and services. The scope of a module is typically quite narrow: it does one thing but attempts to do it well. Writing custom Ansible modules is not particularly […]
What is software sovereignty Software sovereignty is a subset of digital sovereignty. In essence, digital sovereignty means controlling your data, hardware and software. In Europe digital sovereignty has been driven by the EU. The reason is the reliance on services from big, global US-led vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. This poses a risk […]
What are Ansible Collections? Ansible is an infrastructure as code tool used for configuration management, network device management, orchestration and other tasks. Ansible Collections are a way to distribute Ansible content such as roles, playbooks and modules. They can be downloaded from Ansible Galaxy, Git repositories or local directories. Basically collections are a more modern […]
Automation use-cases in the Cloud Johan Wennerberg, a Solution Architect for Red Hat Nordics in Stockholm gave presentation in Red Hat Open Tour 2022 Tallinn. In his presentation titled "Gain robust repeatability as selfservice, by automating your automation" he listed several automation use-cases in the Cloud. Each of these automation use-cases is made possible by […]
Overview of Ansible quality assurance Ansible is an IT automation engine which you can use for configuration management, orchestration and device management, among other things. While you can get started fast with Ansible, ensuring high-quality, bug-free code can be challenging. Moreover, there's not that much official, high-quality or coherent documentation available on Ansible quality assurance […]
We participated in Red Hat Open Tour 2022 Tallinn a while back. Johan Wennerberg, who is a Solution Architect for Red Hat Nordics in Stockholm, gave a presentation titled "Gain robust repeatability as self.service, by automating your automation". Among other things he discussed the importance and use-cases of Cloud infrastructure standardization and automation. Here I […]
Computers were supposed to relieve us humans from boring and repetitive jobs. Here we turn this upside down and do the boring and repetitive job of a computer by importing Cloudflare DNS records to Terraform ourselves. Not fun, but someone’s gotta do it sometimes. If you’re reading this, that someone is probably you. Condolences. My […]
Microsoft Azure provides a metrics and monitoring framework called Azure Monitor. With it you can monitor your Cloud infrastructure and services running there. You can view graphs of the metrics, alert on threshold and all that usual stuff, just like in AWS Cloudwatch. Some Cloud resources like Azure Functions expose "a limited number of useful […]
We participated in Red Hat Open Tour 2022 Tallinn a few weeks ago. Jaan Tanel Veikesaar from Elering, a gas/energy company in Estonia, gave a really nice presentation about their Ansible automation project. Ansible is a very common infrastructure as code and automation tool. Below I'll go over Jaan's presentation, adding some comments and key […]
When you create a distribution, AWS creates several DNS A records with the same name (e.g. d25gma2ea3ckma.cloudfront.net) which point to IPs the distribution is using. Then, typically, you would define CNAME(s) pointing to that cloudfront.net address in your own DNS. Each Cloudfront distribution has a list of aliases, similar to Subject Alternative Names ("SAN") in […]
This article shows you how to enable Azure Backup on Linux VMs. It is recommended to read the Understanding Azure Backup for Linux VMs article first before trying to enable backups with Terraform. Terraform AzureRM provider has three relevant resources: azurerm_linux_virtual_machine: parameters provision_vm_agent and allow_extension_operations should be true or enabling backups will fail (with or […]
Azure Backup is an Azure service that allows, among other things, backing up Windows and Linux VMs in Azure. The backups are essentially virtual machine snapshots, but backing up and/or restoring individual files is also possible. This article tries to explain how Azure Backup and Linux VMs interact and what is required for them to […]
