Category: Ansible
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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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Ansible Import Vs Include…What’s The Real Difference?
There are three module types that can be either imported or included which are: import/include_task, import/include_role, or import/include_playbook. While these are mostly the same there are some subtle differences…so subtle in fact that I couldn’t really figure out what the difference was, so why not share what I’ve learned 🙂 So the textbook difference between…
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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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“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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Create Local Rocky Linux Repository with Ansible and Ascender, AWX, or AAP
Whether for security reasons(you don’t want hosts connecting directly to internet) and/or for efficiency reasons(uses less of your internet connection), it’s often valuable to create a local repository for your Rocky packages. In short, keep a local copy of all the Rocky packages you use so that your servers will just pull from there instead…
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Migrate Red Hat AAP or AWX to Ascender with Automation
AWX derivatives are great tools for putting enterprise controls around your automation. Ascender brings the best of open source automation into one easy-to-install package, and now when you are ready to migrate from either AWX or Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), you can with a few simple steps. It doesn’t stop there, though. You…