Build notifications with CatLight

CatLight is the the perfect app if you would like to know the current status of your continuous delivery pipelines, tasks and bugs. Without looking on E-Mails or visit build servers you know when attention is needed. It’s available for Debian, Ubuntu, Windows and MacOS.

CatLight works with Jenkins, TFS, Travis CI and many more.

catlight setup

After successful installation and configuration, CatLight offers a lot of cool features.

catlight jobs

For personal usage it’s free, you only have to register.

Install Ansible inside virtualenv on CentOS7

There are many ways to install Ansible inside virtualenv on CentOS7, I would like to show now a very simple variant. Important are actually the CentOS packages at the beginning.

Steps

# install needed packages
$ yum install -y python-setuptools python-devel openssl-devel libffi-devel

# install pip
$ easy_install pip

# install virtualenv
$ pip install virtualenv

# create and activate virtualenv
$ virtualenv .env && . .env/bin/activate

# install latest ansible
(.env) [demo@centos7 ~]$ pip install ansible

# show python packages
(.env) [demo@centos7 ~]$ pip freeze
ansible==2.3.1.0
asn1crypto==0.22.0
bcrypt==3.1.3
cffi==1.10.0
cryptography==1.9
enum34==1.1.6
idna==2.5
ipaddress==1.0.18
Jinja2==2.9.6
MarkupSafe==1.0
paramiko==2.2.1
pyasn1==0.2.3
pycparser==2.17
pycrypto==2.6.1
PyNaCl==1.1.2
PyYAML==3.12
six==1.10.0

# exit virtualenv
(.env) [demo@centos7 ~]$ deactivate

it can be so easy 😉