Red Hat Nordics SA Demo lab

We are Red Hat Solution Architects, in this blog we are sharing content that we have used to create our own demos and labs. Some of it has proven to be useful starting points for our customers and partners. You are free to use it as is. If you use it, and it breaks your stuff, you get to keep both pieces ;-). Ansible, Tower, CloudForms, Satellite, RHV, IdM, RHEL, Gluster, Ceph. Disclaimer, This is not a Red Hat official blog, nor a service and we will not provide support on this.

18 November 2018

Day0 for this site

Written by Ilkka Tengvall

Welcome!

Last Friday we had a hack day amongst our Red Hat Nordics SA colleagues. During such hackdays we spend time together to enhance our demos, and nowadays specificly our Demo LAB. Yes, we lucky bastards got our own demo lab :D, woot woot! I’ll start our blog series by describing how I created this web site.

We’ll provide you, dear reader, samples of automation and configs here. So we decided to create Github organization for it. That is the place we’ll use to share git repositories with samples. It’s available here: https://github.com/RedHatNordicsSA

Finding the site

Github logo

Readme.md is fine format, but we wanted to have blog like docs about our automation tasks too. But how to keep them in one place? And whatever comes further along. So why not take Github Pages into use? There you get familiar git way to contribute to articles we share.

Having nicer look and feel

Bootstrap logo

Then we need some way to display the articles nicely, hopefully in blog format. This is now the first try with Bootstrap blog framework. See my first pretty try-out here!

Blog engine

That turned out to be nice layout, let’s see if we can use it with Jekyll blog framework. This page is now the first result of it. To get started, e.g. watch these great video tutorials

Jekyll Logo

By applying those above, I have now created our blog. Welcome. Next thing to do is to apply Bootstrap to the blog, here’s tutorial. Who will do the first PR for it?

Here we are. How about it? Does it seem reasonable? It’s a start at least! Let’s see where it goes. Comments on twitter please.

Just PR for the submit button, feel free to start by either blogging or applying the bootstrap :D

So get git cloning: git clone git@github.com:RedHatNordicsSA/RedHatNordicsSA.github.io.git

Yours, @ikkeT

Update on Dec 21 2018

I switched to hacker theme just because I can! No seriously, I didn’t want drop to scss level, I rather have pre-made theme. And boy had I have to try many of them until found one with working ruby dependencies.

Written by Ilkka Tengvall   Twitter Linkedin Github
I work as an SA at Red Hat Nordics, mainly with speeding things up using automation and hybrid cloud.
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