This article is about the Ansible URI module. In the last couple of months, I have spent a lot of time around automation of Elasticsearch and wanted to share some useful information about how to use Ansible to interact with REST API endpoints and make them idempotent. We all know Ansible modules are idempotent in nature, which means performing an operation once has exactly the same result as performing it repeatedly without any intervening actions....
A quick blog post to share a bash script that I use almost daily to automate the basic GitHub “commit and push” process. Steps to reproduce: Create a file, for example gitpush.sh, and copy/paste the content below: #!/bin/bash RESET="\033[0m" BOLD="\033[1m" YELLOW="\033[38;5;11m" #Get the argument message #read -p "Add Commit message: " message read -p "$(echo -e $BOLD$YELLOW"Add Commit message: "$RESET)" message #Stage all changes git add . #Commit the file(s) git commit -m "$message" echo "Added the commit with message: '$message'" #Get current branch and push changes current_branch=$(git branch --show-current) git push origin "$current_branch" #echo "Pushed changes to '$current_branch' branch" echo -e $BOLD$YELLOW"Pushed changes to '$current_branch' branch"$RESET Move it to /usr/local/bin to make the script available everywhere....