Archive for March, 2016
Using the Ansible Slurp module
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on March 7, 2016
I recently discovered the slurp module within Ansible when I was attempting to find new modules in Ansible 2.0. It is particularly interesting for me since I’ve been doing a bunch of stuff involving the contents of files on remote nodes for my OpenVPN playbook. So I decided to try using it in one of my […]
Backing up & restoring Jenkins
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on March 2, 2016
I’m moving my jenkins instance to a new server, which means meaning up & restoring it. Backup The nice thing about it is that it’s almost entirely self-contained in /var/lib/jenkins, which means I really only have 1 directory to backup. I’m using duply to back the folder up – but it’s 1.9GB in size. So to […]