Category: Linux
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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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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,…
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“Build And Replace” Linux Migration Via Ansible, Ascender, AWX, AAP
Migrating from one Linux major version to another never seems to be a simple task, but through the magic of automation, it can be a lot simpler and reproducible. I’m going to cover the Ansible playbooks I created to do the work, then I’ll execute it using our enterprise automation platform called Ascender. Our recommended…
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HTTP Error 401 – Unauthorized with AWX and Oauth to Servicenow on Cloudflare
So I am running CIQ Ascender which is built from the upstream Ansible AWX project(holler at me if you are looking for support), and to protect it as well as give it an SSL cert I use Cloudflare. This works a treat because my install instantly has a valid cert and all is right with…
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Adding Local Repository On RHEL – For AAP
If you want to install Ansible Navigator or Ansible Builder on your machines, you really should be doing it from the Red Hat official files and not via PIP. The bundled Ansible Automation Platform installer includes the RPMs to install both navigator and builder. Here’s a quick and easy way to make the RPM directory…