https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/it-operations/ Recent content in IT Operations on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/ansible-end-of-handcrafted-it/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/ansible-end-of-handcrafted-it/ <p>There is a moment every administrator knows, after enough years in the job.</p> <p>Friday evening. A server has to be rebuilt — yesterday. You remember most of the settings. The most important paths. The configuration that lives somewhere in a wiki nobody maintains anymore. And that one option you set eight months ago so the thing would finally run.</p> <p>You start. Type. Check. Correct. And at some point you realise: this server resembles none of the others. It grew — it was never built.</p>