Category: Linux
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Jinja2 HTML Templates For Reporting With Ansible Automation Platform The Easy Way
One of the really awesome uses for ansible is to perform an action and be able to develop a pretty report…for you or, let’s face it…management likes pretty graphs and spreadsheets. I worked in tandem with the talented tiger Nick Arellano at a recent hackaton, and he cleaned up a tidy little jinja2 template to…
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Provision Azure Windows/Linux VMs Using Ansible Automation Platform, Plus Post Provisioning
So not only will I be provisioning Windows and Linux VMs, but I’ll also be adding them to my inventory, doing post provision hardening, and doing a system scan. Having said that, I’m going to be doing “art of the possible” on hardening and scanning as those will absolutely vary based on your needs, so…
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Using Ansible Automation Platform For Post Configuration With Red Hat Satellite Provisioning Via Callbacks
That title is a mouthful. In essence, what I’m doing is: – Connecting my Satellite install to Azure so I can deploy RHEL images – Once I use Satellite to deploy the image and it is provisioned, the VM will contact my AAP server via a “Callback” – The AAP(call it Tower or Control, whichever…
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Installing An Ansible Automation Platform Cluster
Clustering the AAP is a good idea for multiple reasons: it allows some HA(a node can die and you can keep operating), you are able to distribute the load across multiple control nodes, and you can connect to any of them via the standard GUI. A cluster setup follows the standard install process, but with…
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Deploying And Using CyberArk Conjur With Ansible Tower
First I have to say this wasn’t as simple and straight forward as I could have hoped for…in fact it took me the better part of 1.5 days to get working, and even then I had to get help from Jody Hunt from CyberArk(HUGE thanks to him). In fact, I partially followed his guide here…
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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…