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Linux – fast file search
command is the most commonly used search utility in Linux. GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given starting-point by evaluating the given expressio
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Infoblox dns api
Infoblox provides a product to manage your DNS, DHCP and IPAM through a single management interface. In this short article, I will walk you through automating some o
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Ansible – rolling update or deployment
Making a change to live servers in production is something which has to be done with extreme care and planning. Several deployment types such as blue/green, canary,
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Getting started with Google Cloud Platform(GCP)
Google provides the same cloud services as other cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services(AWS) and Microsoft (Azure). It refers it as Google Cloud Platform or GCP
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Ansible – run specific task of a playbook
If you have a large playbook it may become useful to be able to run a specific part of it or only a single task without running the whole playbook. Both plays and ta
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Ansible – enable logging
By default, Ansible logs the output of playbooks to the standard output only. In order to enable logging to a file for later review or auditing, it can be turned on
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ipython – quick introduction
ipython tutorial and how to delete sensitive data from history
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How to mount a raw disk image
In this post, I will share how you can mount a raw disk image such as an image generated with dd. Raw disk image or RAW Image Format is a bit-for-bit copy of disk da
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Linux – copy file contents to clipboard
Problem - You have a file with hundreds or thousands of lines and you want to copy the contents of this file and paste it to an external application, for instance to
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Spoof x-forwarded-for (XFF) header using requests module
The x-forwarded-for header is a way of identifying the IP address of the original client when a web server is sitting behind a proxy or load-balancer. The load-balan
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