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A cleanup playbook for 3scale

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0200

If you are running integration tests embedding 3scale or are doing a lot of 3scale demos, you might sooner or later have plenty of services declared in the 3scale Admin console, which could reveal difficult to work with. And with the new feature named API-as-a-Product, there are now Backends and Products to delete, making the cleanup by hand a bit tedious.

This article explains how to cleanup a 3scale tenant using Ansible.

Ansible: Add a prefix or suffix to all items of a list

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0200

Recently, in one of my Ansible playbooks I had to prefix all items of a list with a chosen string.

Check the Ansible version number in a playbook

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0200

My Ansible playbooks sometimes use features that are available only in a very recent versions of Ansible.

To prevent unecessary troubles to the team mates that will execute them, I like to add a task at the very beginning of my playbooks to check the Ansible version number and abort if the requirements are not met.

Solving the Ansible error 'This module requires the OpenShift Python client'

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0200

If you are using MacOS to develop Operators based on Ansible or simply running Ansible playbooks straight from your Mac, you might encounter this error:

This module requires the OpenShift Python client.

When coping with this error message, two items need to be checked:

The openshift python module needs to be installed using the pip command bundled with your Ansible.
If you are not using the implicit localhost, your inventory needs to be updated.

Install the openshift python module

As a MacOS user, you most likely installed Ansible using brew. When doing so, Ansible comes bundled with everything needed for its execution: python, all python modules, etc. There is a caveat with this approach: the bundled python interpreter does not load the python modules that are installed system-wide.

Use Ansible to manage the QoS of your OpenShift workload

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0200

As I was administering my OpenShift cluster, I found out that I had a too much memory requests. To preserve a good quality of service on my cluster, I had to tacle this issue.