Martin Bach

Vagrant Ansible Provisioner: working with the Ansible Inventory – addendum

Recently I wrote a post about one of my dream combinations, Ansible and Vagrant. After hitting…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: gather facts in an ad-hoc fashion

There are times when I really need to get some ansible_facts from a host to work out details…
Vagrant Ansible Provisioner: working with the Ansible Inventory

Vagrant and Ansible are a great match: using Vagrant it’s very easy to work with virtual…
Avoiding pitfalls when using cURL in CI/CD pipelines

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (or Deployment, depending on your point of view) pipelines are at the core…
Rendering .adoc include directives properly on GitHub

I recently worked on an issue where a perfectly fine ASCIIDoc file didn’t render properly in…
Putty-like SSH port forwarding on Linux and MacOS

As a Linux or Mac user you benefit from a very useful, built-in terminal and SSH…
Podman secrets: a better way to pass environment variables to containers

Podman became the standard container runtime with Oracle Linux 8 and later, and I have become…
Vagrant: always provision virtual machines

Since Spectre and Meltdown (2 infamous side channel attack vectors on CPUs) have become public I…
Creating a Java Stored Procedure in Oracle Database

This blog post provides a quick (and dirty) way of creating Java Stored Procedures in Oracle…
Installing Podman on Oracle Linux 8

Rather than having to use a search engine to read up on how to install podman…