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How to use the ControlMaster feature of OpenSSH.

The ControlMaster feature of OpenSSH is a powerful tool that can significantly improve the efficiency of your SSH sessions. It allows you to reuse an existing SSH connection for multiple subsequent SSH connections to the same host, reducing the time it takes to establish new SSH connections and improving the

Variable Precedence in Ansible

Ansible is a powerful tool for managing infrastructure and automating tasks. It allows you to define variables that can be used throughout your playbooks and roles, making it easy to reuse configuration and logic across multiple tasks and systems. However, when using variables in Ansible, it is important to understand

Ansible Jinja2 Networking Filters

Ansible is a powerful automation tool that is commonly used to manage and configure IT infrastructure. Jinja2 is a templating engine that is integrated with Ansible, and allows for the creation of dynamic and reusable templates. Ansible's Jinja2 network filters are a set of built-in filters that can be used

ANSIBLE: PREPARING THE MANAGED NODE FOR ANSIBLE WITH ANSIBLE

ANSIBLE: PREPARING THE MANAGED NODE FOR ANSIBLE WITH ANSIBLE

If you are new to ansible I would recommend reading my previous article Ansible: Getting Started [https://www.googlinux.com/ansible-getting-started/] Ansible is agent less and works on SSH to manage and automate tasks on Linux nodes. We would also like this automation to be un-attended. To achieve this, managed

ANSIBLE 2.3: NEW MODULES

ANSIBLE 2.3: NEW MODULES

Soon after Ansible turned five, version 2.3 was released. There are a lot of new features in this version specifically related to networking. Like, Persistent connections framework, network_cli connection plugin and netconf connection plugin. There are 280+ new modules available in Ansible 2.3. Below is the list

ANSIBLE: RUN PLAY ONLY ON REACHABLE HOST

ANSIBLE: RUN PLAY ONLY ON REACHABLE HOST

During one of my Ansible trainings in Singapore one candidate asked me, is there some way that we execute the play only on reachable hosts. She also insisted that the playbook should show no errors. Showing errors would report the Job as failed in Ansible Tower. So, finally we came

CREATING DOCKER CONTAINER USING ANSIBLE

CREATING DOCKER CONTAINER USING ANSIBLE

Ansible and Docker have acquired a larger share among DevOps products & tools. So how about creating a generic ansible playbook to deploy a docker container. > If you are new to Ansible, I would recommend you to go through Ansible: Getting Started [http://googlinux.com/ansible-getting-started/]. We start our playbook by

ANSIBLE: GETTING STARTED

ANSIBLE: GETTING STARTED

WHAT IS ANSIBLE? Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan in Python with its first release on February 20, 2012. It was later acquired by Red Hat. Ansible is an open source configuration management and orchestration utility. It helps to automate deployment or softwares and configurations of multiple remote hosts.