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Parallel execution of Ansible roles

Introduction You can run a playbook for specific host(s), a group of hosts, or “all” (all hosts of the inventory). Ansible will then run the tasks in parallel on the specified hosts. To avoid an overload, the parallelism –(…)

Ansible: reduce output in loops – or replace loops

Reduce the output If you do a loop in Ansible, it always prints the item variable for each loop. “item” is the current list element. If you are looping over a list with small values, then the output is(…)

YaK Core – The Holy Grail for Deploying Ansible Code Everywhere

YaK core Multi-Platform open source Automation Tool simplifies the deployment of Ansible playbooks through a clean UI and API. It offers an intuitive interface where users can upload playbooks, configure parameters, and deploy them seamlessly across various platforms, and(…)

Integrate YaK into Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Introduction to YaK YaK is an open-source automation project developed by dbi services. Built on Ansible playbooks, YaK streamlines the deployment process for various components across any platform. It ensures adherence to best practices, maintains deployment quality, and significantly reduces(…)

Ansible loops: A guide from basic to advanced examples

If you are writing roles with Ansible, you must already have thought about implementing a loop, a loop of loops with Ansible, and wonder how. The ability to execute tasks in loops is primordial. This guide will provide multiple loop(…)

Faster Ansible

Even if Ansible is powerful and flexible, it can be considered “slow”. It will be anyway faster, and more consistent, than doing the same steps manually. Nevertheless, we will experiment to make it even faster. I found few of them(…)

Trigger a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform job/workflow from GitLab CI/CD Pipeline

Are you utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or its open-source version, AWX, to streamline your Ansible playbooks? If so, and you want to trigger a job template or a workflow template from a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, you’ve come to(…)

Configure Zabbix with Ansible

Besides the ability to setup your Zabbix server, proxy and agents, the Ansible collection for Zabbix (ie. community.zabbix) also allows to configure every aspects of your Zabbix system. From hosts to users,(…)

Cloudbees CD/RO, send and receive parameters with bash / Ansible scripts

Sending a pipeline parameter to a bash or Ansible script is easy, but the reverse is less obvious. In this article, we’ll look at how to return parameters from an Ansible script to a Cloudbees CD/RO job. The easy way(…)

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(…)