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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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

Ansible deployment code for Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure

During the YaK weblogic_domain component development phase, I added the Oracle fusion middleware forms & Reports and the Oracle fusion middleware infrastructure for Application development Framework (ADF) deployments to the weblogic_domain component. I(…)

Using Docker containers for Ansible testing

I’d like to share in this post a quick setup using Docker containers for Ansible testing. I wanted to create a small lab for my Ansible scripts testing. The natural option that came to my mind was to(…)

Ansible: Imagination is the Limit

As you might know, I have discovered Ansible 1 year ago. Since then, I am not using for its main purpose as wikipedia says: Ansible is an open-source software provisioning,(…)

What is Variable Precedence in Ansible?

In Ansible, definition of variable precedence is often overlooked. Despite what I wrote in my previous blog (Use Ansible like a Programming Language), Ansible is not exactly a programming language. There is a difference, especially on the(…)

Managing Ansible with AWX – Part II – Organizations, Users and Teams

In the 1st post of this serie, I demonstrate how easy it is to install AWX on a local Minikube Kubernetes cluster. Now that the installation is done and the access to the web console is(…)

Automating Linux patching with Ansible – How to keep all your environments consistent ?

Your may want to patch your Linux servers on a regular basis (e.g using “yum/dnf update”). As always, it’s obviously recommended to : 1) Patch the TEST systems 2) Check if there is no side effects 3) Wait(…)

Managing Ansible with AWX – Part I – Installation on Minikube

AWX is a web based GUI tool for managing Ansible playbooks. It is the open source upstream project of Red Hat Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower) . As for Fedora and RHEL operating systems, the releases of(…)