The nginx http_limit_conn module to limit http connections works as advertised. It limits the number of connections an ip-address (or other directives) can make to the nginx.

Also: the Ansible hardening-role for nginx as a default limit of 5 connections (see).

This bit me hard: One website I host makes …

And it is (at least for my instance) 4194304 bytes. That is 4,19 mb. You can easily achieve this by running some Ansible playbooks in diff-mode that unpack many files. :)

Job's log exceeded limit of 4194304 bytes.

Job execution will continue but no more output will be collected.

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 …

Recently, I utilized the yum-config-manager program, which is part of the yum-utils package, to add an additional repository into a CentOS box (of course this works with RedHat, too).

The process involves installing yum-utils and adding a repository using the yum-config-manager command. Subsequently, a file is dynamically generated in the …

Most people are probably already aware of this fact, but you can test your Ansible-roles on multiple Ansible versions (e.g. 1.9 and 2.0) with the help of Travis.

This is done using environment variables. When multiple environment variables are specified, a build will be run for every …