Category: Ansible
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Access The Virustotal API Via Ansible
I’ve been doing more security related automation lately(finding it really interesting). Part of a lot of folks process is to get an alert, then do some investigation enrichment. One of the resources people use is a great site called virustotal.com. It allows you to put in a URL or upload a file, and it will…
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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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Cyberark Vault Integration With Ansible Tower
Cyberark has some impressive security tools, and in today’s example I’m using their Vault product. We are connecting in through their AIM(Application Identity Manager) system. Like other secrets engines, AIM allows me to pull secure credentials from it at run time. Also, I’d like to give a big shoutout to the team at CyberArk for…
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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…