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Typed resources for every AWX credential type
A generic credential resource works, and it puts the whole burden of knowing what goes inside on whoever writes the terraform.
An empty AWX instance describes an incomplete API
AWX hides POST on endpoints you have nothing to create against, so an empty instance hands back a schema that looks fine and is missing half its fields.
What a GitLab token can be depends on which GitLab you ask
Access levels arrive in GitLab releases, so validating them without knowing the version gets you a plausible error at the wrong time.
AWX returns $encrypted$ and terraform stops trusting you
The most reported bug in the AWX provider was never really a bug in the provider.
Configuring the thing that makes tokens needs a token
The GitLab secrets engine needs a GitLab token to start, which makes provisioning it from terraform more awkward than it looks.
One provider, many AWX versions
AWX changes its API between releases, so the provider has to know which release it was generated from.
Generating a terraform provider from the AWX API
AWX describes its own resources if you send it an OPTIONS request, so writing the schemas by hand was work I did not need to do.
A Vault secrets engine for GitLab tokens
GitLab tokens live in CI variables for a year at a time, and nobody remembers which ones are still there.
Writing a terraform provider for AWX
AWX has a perfectly good API, but managing it by hand stops scaling the moment more than one person touches it.
Git delete a remote/local branch or tag
A lot of people keep asking me on Skype or chat how to delete a remote branch/tag in git, so I decided to put it in a nice little article, so I can refer it to them.
Getting started with gradle and java
I always used ant with Apache Ivy or maven to build java applications, so I thought there has to be something better and easier to build the application instead of using them. So I decided to give...
tmux logging complete output to a file
I've needed to log the complete output of a node.js process I've been running, even though I've been logging everything, there are some situations where the process completely crashes and nothing...
RVM + GitLab on Debian
I needed to install my own GitLab on my server for my personal projects, so I don't have to use GitHub and pay for it. This will require some work, but in the end you will save some money.
Building lftp on Windows
One of the best FTP clients I have ever seen is lftp, and what is even best it's open source on Linux, if you want to use it on Windows you will have to compile it with Cygwin.
Generating filename based on the android project name and version name when running ant
How to generate a filename based on the android project name and version when running ant, we will look at how the ant scripts should look like after the modifications
Using ant to generate javadoc for your android project
This process describes the generation of an android project using ANT, which will generate the project and also generate the javadoc documentation
Git alias, color and pretty printing
I'm tired of looking at the plain old log in git, so let's see how we can spice it up a bit?
Automatic SVN incremental backup
How to create a simple incremental backup system, that you can restore at any time at a later time?
Getting the IP address of a running VirtualBox VM
To get the IP address of a running virtual machine we just need to do the following:
Daily SVN Incremental Backup
Lately I've had a lot of repositories to deal with, so I wanted to back it up, beside doing the usual, creating a hotcopy I decided to create incremental backups of all the repositories, so we can...
Move the steam apps installation folder
Well like a lot of people, I had a problem that I have no space on my install partition, at best around 2GB-3GB, so I wanted to move the SteamApp folder to a different partition which had a lot...