Ansible

Ansible automates roadshow 2023

I attended this tour from Red Hat to promote automation at Ansible automates roadshow with my colleague Arnaud Berbier. You’ll find his review of the journey here) in Geneva. It was the third date from their tour. In case(…)

Ansible Automates – Event Driven & Lightspeed

It was a pleasure to attend the Ansible Automates Roadshow in Geneva this year with my colleague Chay Te. There were several topics and sessions covered during the full day. It was a learning opportunity about the vision and strategy(…)

OCI: Automate your Oracle Cloud Database software releases deployment (db-home)

As part of a very exciting project around Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer (aka. ExaCC) technology, we wanted to rollout in an automated manner the database software aka. ORACLE_HOME on ExaCC database clusters (aka. VM cluster). However, we rapidly identified(…)

Deploy awx-operator with Helm using images from a local registry

You want to deploy Ansible AWX on a Kubernetes cluster using awx-operator, but your security policy requires you to use a local registry to store the necessary container images ? Okay, let’s see how to do(…)

AWX log keeper.

The aim of this project is to use Ansible role to export AWX logs on disk, on daily basis, to have an easy access for debug and investigation.

Using WebHook’s from GitLab to execute external code and tools

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction WebHooks are HTTP callbacks that are triggered by events. In case of GitLab these can be events like pushing some code, or creating an issue, or pushing some comments. In this quick post I will(…)

An overview of “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration” event by dbi services

Is the Oracle Cloud a hot topic for you? dbi services organized an event about the Cloud today in Lausanne: "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration".

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(…)