Category: Ascender
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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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Passing Ansible Variables In Workflows Using set_stats
Workflows allow AAP, AWX, and Ascender to visually connect playbooks together. This works great…until you try and pass variables from one job template(playbook and required parts in Ascender) to another. That’s where the set_stats module comes in. It has the ability to pass between workflow jobs, but the documentation doesn’t fully explain how it works,…
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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…