Category: Server
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Hashicorp Vault Enterprise with Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
Believe it or not, I covered connecting HashiCorp Vault to Ansible Tower about five years ago. Things have changed since then; it’s Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 now, not Tower, but the core idea holds up just fine moving forward: don’t store secrets in AAP at all. Store them in Vault, and let AAP reach out…
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ServiceNow to Terraform via Event-Driven Ansible
This demo shows the dream. A user goes to SNOW’s service catalog, clicks order on a VM, and the Ansible Automation Platform(AAP) calls Terraform to provision. AAP will then configure the server, add it to monitoring, complete any tickets…essentially anything you want to happen. Again, I can’t stress enough how insanely functional this is for…
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Satellite Custom Host Variables Into Ansible Automation Platform
This one is MUCH more niche than my typical blog posts, but a customer asked, so here I am. A customer has all of their hosts i Red Hat’s Satellite product, so this will be their source of truth(the place that holds a list of all hosts). They are using Satellite as a dynamic inventory…
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Connecting To Windows Over OpenSSH Using The Ansible Automation Platform
The tried and true method to connect to a Windows host using Ansible has been WinRM since the inception of Ansible. Now this upstart OpenSSH is here for Windows and folks want to use it for their automation. I’ve heard that connecting to a Windows host over SSH should be just the same as using…
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VMware To Proxmox VE Migration Via Ansible And Ascender
Once we choose a system, we often feel married to it. The idea of migrating our infrastructure often seems more expensive than the new price the vendor just handed us for what we are using. I’ve felt/seen this with software, cloud providers, and hypervisors. While this can be the truth at first glance, automation can…
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Automating VMware Alternatives With Ansible And Ascender
Automating VMware Alternatives With Ansible And Ascender I have personally used and had good success with VMware for nearly two decades. While it is a good product, I occasionally have folks talk about some alternatives, and how viable they are. For this article/demo I’m going to use Proxmox VE, which is a competent/user friendly hypervisor.…
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Install Performance Co-pilot Via Ansible And Ascender
Performance co-pilot(PCP) is a suite of tools used for performance monitoring for a variety of things. We see it used quite a bit in the HPC space to either squeeze as much performance out of a system as possible or to troubleshoot performance issues. It can often be tedious to install and manage…unless, of course,…