Ansible Tutorial – Ansible Container Howto

Posted on May 15, 2024June 17, 2024 by Marco Antonio Carcano

Ansible is a powerful datacenter automation tool that enables nearly declarative automations - "Ansible Tutorial - Ansible Container Howto" is the first of a series of posts dedicated to Ansible, paying particularly attention at "doing all-right": Ansible is a powerful tool, and as many powerful tool can make more pain than benefits if improperly managed.

In this post we see how to quickly set up a containerised Ansible on a workstation, configuring the environment so that it can be run from the shell without explicitly invoking podman, providing a very friendly user experience the same way, enabling it to run statements as it was really installed on the system.

Setup a GENEVE tunnel with OpenVSwitch and Podman

Posted on December 12, 2023December 12, 2023 by Marco Antonio Carcano

Overlay networking enables to implement tunnels to interconnect networks defined inside a host (such as Docker/Podman private networks): for example flannel based Kubernetes uses VxLANs to interconnect the Minion’s private networks. Anyway VxLAN is only one of the available technologies: other technologies such as GENEVE, STT or NVGRE are available.

In this post we setup a GENEVE tunnel with OpenVSwitch and Podman - the described set up goes beyond the simple interconnection on of layer 3 network segments, interconnecting two Podman’s private networks configured with the same IP subnet (so they share the same broadcast domain) - the layer 2 data are exchange between the OpenVSwitch bridges on the two hosts through the GENEVE tunnel.