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AWX: A server error has occurred and Redis

Sometimes in the container based deployments of AWX, you get errors. As with any computer system with many moving parts in a distributed architecture. AWX has 4 containers when you run it: awx-web – a django applicaiton awx-task – a task runner awx-redis – the message queue / broker postgresql – the persistent storage database […]

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Using Keycloak as the Identity Provider for AWX

Good day, in this post I will show you how to use Keycloak (Open source Redhat SSO) as the identity provider for AWX. I am basing this tutorial on the post on red hat SSO integration on ansible.com and from the AWX docs on SAML authentication Prerequisites You need the following set up: AWX instance […]

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The price of Things

What is the price of things in 2021 really? At a coffee shop (Morgan’s Blouberg): A flat white single/double is: R27/R30 A toasted chicken mayo with small chips: R50 A pub: Rock Star Diner = Black label draught 500ml: R45 Carlyle’s on Derry = Black label draught 500ml: R42.5 A burger: Shwarma Express = A […]

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Installing python3.9 on ubuntu 20.04 from source

I’ve found installing python from source on ubuntu just makes your life easier. Python depends on a few system binaries and linked libraries so you need to ensure they are present first. sudo apt install software-properties-common build-essential \ libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev \ tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libncurses-dev libgdbm-dev \ libpcap-dev libexpat1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev libgdbm-compat-dev […]

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Mount external hd permanently on raspberry pi

The best tutorial to use for mounting an external Hard Drive permanently on your rspberry pi is on raspberrypi.org documentation List all the disk partitions sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL Identify the name of the disk partition (eg. sda1) Install the relevant storage driver for your FSTYPE (eg. exfat-fuse or ntfs-3g) – usually already install on […]