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 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 nodes need to be prepared
Ansible 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 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
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.We start our playbook by giving it a
Ansible 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.
