<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nick Arellano</title><description>Interactive guides on automation, networking, and infrastructure. Learn by doing, not just watching.</description><link>https://ario.cloud/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>What an Ansible Task Really Costs</title><link>https://ario.cloud/blog/what-an-ansible-task-really-costs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ario.cloud/blog/what-an-ansible-task-really-costs/</guid><description>Count the SSH operations behind one Ansible module task, then see how pipelining, ControlPersist, forks, serial, throttle, run_once, and strategy choices shape a large fleet run.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ansible</category><category>performance</category><category>devops</category></item><item><title>How Ansible Actually Resolves Variables</title><link>https://ario.cloud/blog/how-ansible-resolves-variables/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ario.cloud/blog/how-ansible-resolves-variables/</guid><description>A practical guide to the Ansible variable precedence rules that cause real playbook surprises.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ansible</category><category>variables</category></item><item><title>The AAP 2.7 Architecture, Port by Port</title><link>https://ario.cloud/blog/aap-2-7-architecture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ario.cloud/blog/aap-2-7-architecture/</guid><description>Explore the AAP 2.7 enterprise topology as firewall boundaries, then trace a login, a job launch, an image pull, and an event trigger through the mandatory Platform Gateway.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ansible</category><category>automation</category><category>architecture</category><category>red-hat</category></item><item><title>Ansible Builder and Execution Environments</title><link>https://ario.cloud/blog/ansible-builder-ee/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ario.cloud/blog/ansible-builder-ee/</guid><description>Build a small, testable Ansible execution environment with ansible-builder v3, then inspect its contents and prove it works before Automation Controller.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ansible</category><category>containers</category><category>automation</category><category>red-hat</category></item><item><title>Getting Started with Ansible</title><link>https://ario.cloud/blog/getting-started-with-ansible/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ario.cloud/blog/getting-started-with-ansible/</guid><description>See how Ansible turns inventory, modules, check mode, and idempotency into safe convergence across 10 hosts, changing only the one nginx server that drifted.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ansible</category><category>automation</category><category>devops</category></item></channel></rss>