Local automation

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Insomnia REST

For a very long time, the go-to tool was curl. Great, always available command line tool. Unfortunately, there is one small issue. It’s hard to keep requests and collect them in collections, it’s great for one-time shots or debugging, but for constant working with API could be painful. To solve it, I started working with tools like Postman/Insomnia. Then eh... Strange licensing model, or changes which occurred from Kong side click, definitely push me again for some lookup. After checking different very popular tools and those not such well known I decided to use… Ansible. Sounds strange right? Let me explain this decision. For example, look at this code.

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--- - name: Query endpoint with auth hosts: localhost gather_facts: false tasks: - name: Query endpoint vars: username_password: "admin:password" ansible.builtin.uri: url: https://example.com/ method: GET headers: Authorization: Basic {{ username_password | string | b64encode }} validate_certs: false register: query_results.

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