Agentless configuration drift detection and remediation

Publicada el noviembre 15, 2023 por Stack Over Cloud

Over time, application owners find themselves compelled to continuously refine their applications and the underlying infrastructure to enhance the products they deliver, whether to internal or external customers. These modifications inevitably lead to changes in the configuration of both applications and infrastructure. While some of these changes may be benign, others can unintentionally steer the Read more about Agentless configuration drift detection and remediation[…]

5 use cases for automating your infrastructure with Ansible Automation Platform

Publicada el noviembre 7, 2023 por Stack Over Cloud

Infrastructure automation is an area where systems administrators and IT operations teams can see some of the biggest benefits from automation, including time savings, reducing tedious manual work, and improving the overall health of their systems. In this blog, I’ve identified the top 5 infrastructure automation use cases for Ansible Automation Platform that you can Read more about 5 use cases for automating your infrastructure with Ansible Automation Platform[…]

How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine

Publicada el marzo 1, 2023 por Stack Over Cloud

Should you ever need to rebuild a Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine, here is a way to do it. Pre-requisites Jenkins WAR file First, you should download the Jenkins war file that will be inside the MSI file. You can access it from the official Jenkins website or from the Jenkins update center. Check Read more about How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine[…]

Deep dive into Trend Micro Deep Security integration modules

Publicada el abril 21, 2021 por Stack Over Cloud

At AnsibleFest 2020, we announced the extension of our security automation initiative to support endpoint protection use cases. If you have missed it, check out the recording of the talk “Automate your endpoint protection using Ansible” on the AnsibleFest page. Today, following this announcement we release the supported Ansible Content Collection for Trend Micro Deep Read more about Deep dive into Trend Micro Deep Security integration modules[…]

Automating mixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Environments

Publicada el febrero 11, 2021 por Stack Over Cloud

For a system administrator, a perfect world would consist of just one type of server that we needed to support and just one tool to do that work. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. Many system admins are required to manage day to day operations of very different servers with different operating systems. Read more about Automating mixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Environments[…]

Testing Jenkins 2.249.1 on Windows

Publicada el septiembre 12, 2020 por Stack Over Cloud

This article describes our observations during Windows testing of the Jenkins 2.249.1 release candidate. Upgrade testing Jenkins 2.249.1 is a new long term support release with user interface improvements and changes in Windows support. It is the first long term support release to drop support for Microsoft.NET framework 2.0. The end of support for Microsoft.NET Read more about Testing Jenkins 2.249.1 on Windows[…]

Jenkins Windows Services: YAML Configuration Support – GSoC Project Results

Publicada el agosto 30, 2020 por Stack Over Cloud

Hello, world! GSoC 2020 Phase 3 has ended now and it was a great period for thw Jenkins Windows Services – YAML Configuration Support project. In this blog post, I will announce the updates during the GSoC 2020 – Phase 2 and Phase 3. If you are not already aware of this project, I would Read more about Jenkins Windows Services: YAML Configuration Support – GSoC Project Results[…]

Windows Installer Upgrades

Publicada el agosto 12, 2020 por Stack Over Cloud

This article describes the transition from the old Jenkins Windows installer 2.235.2 (32 bit) to the new Jenkins Windows installer 2.235.3 (64 bit) Let’s take a look how Jenkins installation on Windows happened before release of this upgrade. Step 1 It’s evident that branding information is not present here. Step 2 Jenkins would be installed Read more about Windows Installer Upgrades[…]

Jenkins 2.248: Windows Support Updates

Publicada el julio 24, 2020 por Stack Over Cloud

In this article, I would like to announce the new Windows support policy which was introduced in the Jenkins project in June 2020. This policy sets an expectation about how we handle issues and patches related to Windows support for the Jenkins server and agents, and how we organize testing of Windows support in the Read more about Jenkins 2.248: Windows Support Updates[…]

Windows Service Wrapper : YAML Configuration Support – GSoC Phase – 01 Updates

Publicada el julio 9, 2020 por Stack Over Cloud

Hello all, I am Buddhika Chathuranga from Sri Lanka and I am a final year undergraduate at the Faculty of IT, University of Moratuwa. I am participating in GSoC 2020 with Jenkins. I am working on the Windows Service Wrapper Project. So the Coding Phase 01 of GSoC 2020 is now over and this blog Read more about Windows Service Wrapper : YAML Configuration Support – GSoC Phase – 01 Updates[…]