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Ansible Custom Interactive Dynamic Inventory

When working with an Ansible dynamic inventory, you may want to update it from your playbook on the fly. For instance, you may want to create a server and then install an application on it without calling a second playbook(…)

Ansible loop over registered results

We were recently confronted with one of our playbook constraint while trying to identify which database software could be uninstalled from our servers. Until now, we ran the playbook to de-install a specific version which were “discovered manually”. However, we(…)

Automate AWS deployments with Ansible + Terraform

Automate AWS deployments with Ansible + Terraform This installation is made from a bastion server already available with the proper network permissions. For different deployment types, you should adapt it to your need.

In-person event (June 11,2019) Ansible Automates – Bern

A couple of weeks ago, I found in my inbox an invitation from Red Hat concerning an event organized in Bern about Ansible. I heard a lot about Automation but did not really know what can or could be(…)

Using Ansible to bring up a three node Patroni cluster in minutes

Automation is key today, nobody wants to do the same tasks over and over and again. Cloud without automation is not even possible. There are several tools around that help with automation and one of the most popular is(…)

Deploy DC/OS using Ansible (Part 2) – Playbooks

Finally, after all the configuration stuff is done, we can run the playbooks Create SSH Access First the SSH Access on all nodes need to be created. Therefore the access-onprem.yml is used: Be careful, I used CentOS on(…)

Deploy DC/OS using Ansible (Part 1) – Getting Started

To start into this topic I want to shortly explain some basics. Afterwards I show you how to prepare the configuration files.

Deploy a Cloudera cluster with Terraform and Ansible in Azure – part 3

After the deployment step with Terraform and the configuration/installation with Ansible, we will continue the installation of our Cloudera cluster with Cloudera Manager. By following the below steps you will see how to install CDH on our hosts using Cloudera(…)

Deploy a Cloudera cluster with Terraform and Ansible in Azure – part 2

In this part of the blog posts series, we will show how ansible helps us to configure our cluster and install all pre-requisite needed for Cloudera Manager. Ansible is one of the most important automation tools currently. Ansible will help(…)

Deploy a Cloudera cluster with Terraform and Ansible in Azure – part 1

Deploying a Cloudera distribution of Hadoop automatically is very interesting in terms of time-saving. Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, allow now to provision, manage and deploy configuration for large clusters. In this blog posts series,(…)