Suppose you run a database as a service (DBaaS) for example in Azure. You have automated backups configured in case something bad happens. However these backups do not save you against a accidental database deletion as the backups get deleted, too!

Then there’s the Open Telekom Cloud (OTC). The …

Using Ansible’s import_playbook module I was always under the impression that the module accepts no parameters and boldly stated so! However another commentor helpfully pointed out that I was wrong.

Here’s an example. The first playbook (importer_playbook.yml):

- import_playbook: imported-playbook.yml
  vars:
    foo: hunter2

… simply imports a second …

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The Open Telekom Cloud provides Redis as a Service called Distributed Cache Service.

The used Redis version is 3, first published on 1 Apr 2015. The latest 3.0.x release was published on 28 jan 2016. The current version is 6.2.2, published on Mon April 19 2021 …

Recently I tried to resize a LVM logical volume with its volume group and the physical disk belonging to the vg. Because the logical volume contained all partitions except for /boot I knew it would be hard.

I also knew that I had no backup and no snapshot of the …