Michael Wadman

My thoughts and experiences with all things IT

OpenStack Lab Network - Switch Configuration (Part 3)

Configuring routing on Cumulus switches with Ansible

This post is the seventh in a series that plans to document my progress through installing and configuring a small OpenStack Lab. For other posts in this series, see the overview section of the ...

OpenStack Lab Network - Switch Configuration (Part 2)

Configuring the Interfaces of Cumulus switches with Ansible

This post is the sixth in a series that plans to document my progress through installing and configuring a small OpenStack Lab. For other posts in this series, see the overview section of the in...

OpenStack Lab Network - Switch Configuration (Part 1)

Starting the configuration of Cumulus switches with Ansible

This post is the fifth in a series that plans to document my progress through installing and configuring a small OpenStack Lab. For other posts in this series, see the overview section of the in...

Ansible - Firewalld Module on Ubuntu

Getting Ansible firewalld tasks working on Ubuntu based systems

When trying to run an Ansible “firewalld” task on an Ubuntu machine recently, I received the following error: TASK [Firewalld Task] ************************** fatal: [vagrant-test]: FAILED! =>...

Python Virtualenv for Dummies

Installing pip packages without breaking your system

Recently I was trying to write a script that had dependencies on pip packages. Now, I am fortunate enough to know that it’s a bad idea to install pip packages globally (especially using sudo), so...