Automation

Over at Linuxserver we use Ansible for it’s convenient integration with Jinja, a templating engine for Python, along with its powerful framework to execute shell commands. With this we are able to automate quite a lot of work, like generating a uniform and recognizable README, or injecting files into the container(don’t worry, the files are committed and pushed to GitHub before the image is built) for some logic. In order for all this to work, most of the metadata is filled into two YAML files in each repository, jenkins-vars....

Now that I have set up this server as I want, the next step is to ensure it stays this way. One of the things I do to achieve this, is by setting up monitoring, and yes, it is very overkill for this setup. I went with a set of tools that I know, with some new additions which has been on my list of things to look into for a while, mainly Loki and Promtail....