Category: Server
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ServiceNow Orders VMWare VMs Via Ansible Tower
This is a quick demo that orders a server in ServiceNow, then once approved it calls Ansible Tower which then provisions VMs in VMWare. This is built using this ansible blog post that shows how to tie together ServiceNow and Ansible Tower. Video Demo ServiceNow First thing to do is create the OAuth connection between…
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Using Ansible To Create DNS Certificates And Install Them On F5 Big IP Loadbalancers
This demo will first use the DNS method to create a letsencrypt cert, then it will build a VIP in the F5, and last it will install the letsencrypt certificate for that VIP. I then have a workflow for updating the cert and pushing it to the F5. I suppose this allows you to live…
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Self Service Troubleshooting Using ServiceNow and Ansible Tower
Holy cow did I learn a lot on this one. It took me the better part of two weeks to put it all together/learn everything required. This was actually my first go at automating Windows and I learned a LOT. The idea behind this setup is that if a user can’t access a TCP based…
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Authenticating To Ansible Tower Via Windows Active Directory
The Ansible automation platform has many awesome features, and one in particular is its ability to authenticate off of something other than itself. A common one I’m running into with customers is having Tower authenticate off of their Active Directory, so that’s what I’m going to tackle here. This assumes you have a functioning AD…
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Backdoor Access To Cisco Devnet Reserved Sandboxes – Windows Portproxy
I recently needed to do a demo of my Cisco ACI Ansible stuff, and unfortunately the always on service was down for maint…NBD I’ll reserve one. “Uhhh you can only get direct access via the anyconnect client…oh no…” So to get the lab up quick fast I ran the anyconnect client on my workstation, then…
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Centos 8 curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: EE certificate key too weak
When trying to hit the Rest API in a Yealink phone I was getting the following from cURL: curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: EE certificate key too weak Turns out this is a good thing as it is the system killing old ciphers. To get Centos8 to accept legacy protocols it’s a simple command and…
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Install An SSL Cert For Ansible Tower Using LetsEncrypt
This can be done in the span of about 5 minutes(it’s almost tooooo easy). First, ensure that you have public access to TCP ports 80/443 to your tower server(it’s likely you’ve already done that, though). Tower auto installs and uses nginx as its webserver. Step one is to tell nginx what your FQDN is for…