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Ansible 2.7 was released recently and along with it brought a new deprecation warning for the apt module: [code lang=text] ...
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There are times when you want to configure your website to explicitly disallow access from certain countries, or only allow ...
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There are times when not only you’ll want to have separate vault files for development, staging, and production, but when ...