Once in a while, when working with Jinja templating engine, you might need to create a random Bit Set with Jinja. Some might also call it a Binary Flag Set.
Basically, this will be a binary number (for example 10110) where each digit (bit) represents whether something is on/enabled/present or off.
In some systems, this binary number is actually stored as a base 10 integer. So 10110 will be stored as 22.
Once in a while, when working with Jinja templating engine, you might need to create a random GUID with Jinja.
Continue reading Create Random GUID with JinjaI’ve recently dipped my toes into Splunk Eventgen (Jinja templating). It’s an awesome app that allows you to generate sample events that can be ingested by Splunk (or for any other reason).
EventGen has two ways of configuring the event content generation:
While the traditional way is quite straightforward, the event’s format that I was after had a few nuances that made it not suitable for me, thus I had to fiddle with Splunk Eventgen Jinja templating.
Continue reading Splunk Eventgen Jinja templatingHere is how we have used goss and Ansible templates to run system tests after building syslog-ng servers
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