Ansible for Infrastructure Testing
At $JOB
we often find ourselves at customer sites where we see the
same set of basic problems that we have previously encountered
elsewhere ("your clocks aren't in sync" or "your filesystem is full"
or "you haven't installed a critical update", etc). We would like a
simple tool that could …
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