Category: Ansible
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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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Building a Custom Execution Environment with Claude Code and a Private Automation Hub
I’ve been building Execution Environments (EEs) for Ansible Automation Platform for a while now, but this time I wanted to see how far I could get by handing the whole thing to Claude Code and just reacting to what came back. I’m using the Ansible Automation Platform version 2.6 for this demo, and I’m putting…
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Connecting AAP2.6 Private Automation Hub To Certified And Verified Content
If you’re standing up a private Automation Hub on Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, one of the first things you’ll want is to pull down Red Hat Certified and Validated collections from the hosted service on console.redhat.com. On paper it’s straightforward. In practice, there are a handful of gotchas that will hand you a cryptic “Failed”…
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Ansible Automation Platform MCP Server To Claude Code
I’m using AI…you’re using AI…now how do we get it to play with the rest of our tools? MCP is the way my friends. I’m going to cover how I quickly connected my AAP MCP to Claude Code(CC) running on a RHEL 9 VM. I was initially trying to do it via the Windows desktop…
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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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ServiceNow to Ansible Event Driven Automation The Easy Way
I first have to say that the technique pioneered here was completely engineered by my brother-from-another-mother Nick Arellano. Connect with this brilliant dude on LinkedIn NOW! Introduction There is a traditional method that allowed ServiceNOW(SNOW) to connect to the Ansible Automation Platform’s(AAP) API, but while this worked, it was clunky. In short it would go…
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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…