Ansible

dynatrace First Steps

In this blog, I will tell you how I setup my first agent, on a YaK deployed server. Of course, I will use YaK to deploy it. What is dynatrace? dynatrace is an observability platform which covers from infrastructure monitoring(…)

How to use AWX REST API to execute jobs

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction AWX provides a REST API which allows to do pretty all commands that can be executed through the web interface, using http requests. Sometimes is more easy to restart, or start jobs for instance through(…)

Specify hosts in ansible-playbook command line

Introduction Playbook are a key element of Ansible. You specify which roles and tasks will run on your hosts and groups.Each play of the playbook must have its parameter hosts set. Here is a quick example of different hosts(…)

Ansible Event Driven Automation

In my previous blogs about Ansible, I covered a few use cases: Simple playbooks Use Ansible like a Programming Language REST API calls Gather(…)

Docker Containers for Developers

As I am working on developing a component for YaK, I have to stick to standards on how to write code in Ansible as well as many other constraints regarding security. I always thought of docker(…)

Create and manage Ansible Execution Environments

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction What is an Ansible Execution Environnement, by the way ? As per RedHat definition an Ansible Execution Environment (EE) is a standard way to build and distribute the environment that automation runs in, which reduces complexity(…)

Overcome jboss-cli Limitations with Ansible

The work on YaK JBoss/WildFly component helped me to improve my knowledge of Ansible, but not only. I also learned a lot on jboss-cli scripting and especially limitations that comes with it. For instance, followings are(…)

cloud-init native Ansible support

Cloud-init is a software developed to setup automatically a cloud virtual machine using metadata ingested and applied at the first boot or at a chosen frequency. All the magic happens through a #cloud-config YAML file. #cloud-config already supports Ansible execution(…)

Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) 12c : Configure Full SSL

This blog describes how to configure an Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) 12c fronting a Fusion Middleware Forms and Reports in full SSL mode. This means, the HTTP Server listen in SSL and the mod_wl_ohs plugin is configured to connect to(…)

JBoss EAP (and WildFly) cli Scripting via Ansible

As I am working on a new YaK component to deploy a JBoss-EAP/WildFly server, I decided to configure it with help of jboss-cli.sh scripting tool instead of direct modification of xml files. The idea is to(…)