series · 6 partsLet's Encrypt with Ansible
Automate the whole TLS certificate lifecycle: request with Ansible Core, run it from AWX/AAP with GitOps, deploy to Cisco ASA and F5 BIG-IP, …
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11Playbooks, AWX and Automation Platform, from first run to production gotchas.
07TLS lifecycle with Let's Encrypt, Cloudflare DNS, ASA and F5.
04NetBox as inventory, YAML you can read, intent you can diff.
series · 6 partsAutomate the whole TLS certificate lifecycle: request with Ansible Core, run it from AWX/AAP with GitOps, deploy to Cisco ASA and F5 BIG-IP, …

A practical guide to MCP transport types, breaking down stdio, SSE, and HTTP Streamable with FastMCP configuration examples and a clear decision guide …

A hands-on guide to building an MCP server that exposes NetBox queries, device configs, and AWX job templates directly to Claude using FastMCP and …

Learn how to build Anthropic Agent Skills for network automation, including a complete SKILL.md example with NetBox queries, device config retrieval, …

How to Use NetBox as an Inventory in Ansible Core where I show you how into integrate NetBox Labs, with Ansible by Red Hat Core using a YAML …

Troubleshooting LDAP group-to-role mapping failures in AAP 2.5—why group DNs must be lowercase and how to fix it.
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