Andreas' Technical Tidbits

Using the Ansible filters from_yaml and to_json it is easy to construct a task to convert a yaml file to JSON . Here is the Ansible playb...

When running command pipelines it is sometimes convenient to break out of a sub process and exit a shell script. There are differences tho...

Scenario Assume I have a list in python a = [ -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 ] (an admittedly simple list here with integer numbers). I want to shift ...

Many programming languages support an operation which they call modulo operator and which is often designated by the symbol % Often it is ...

When working with more complex variables in Ansible (often based on yaml input files) you always have to be aware whether the variable is a...