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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 time-to-deploy. Initially created in response to the growing demand from dbi services’ consultants and clients, YaK simplifies and accelerates deployments… 

YaK and Ansible Collection Integration

In this blog, I will show you how easy it is to use an existing ansible collection with YaK. Ansible Galaxy Ansible Galaxy is a public repository of Ansible roles. For the sake of this demonstration, I will use middleware_automation.wildfly collection. To install it, in my yakbeta container: Prepare YaK With the beta version, I have to set YAK_CORE_COMPONENT environment… 

Tips to Develop a new Component on top of YaK Core

If you are following social medias, you are probably aware of the new product that dbi services launched which is called YaK (news here). With Pascal Brand, we are working on developing new components for it. I will share my experience on creating new components with few tips that could makes your development faster and safer. By the way, dbi… 

Add On-Premises Host in YaK Core

Even if YaK Core does not manage on-premises servers provisioning, these can be easily added to YaK inventory. If you are too excited, can’t wait to test YaK and have no cloud account handy, you can use our demo or deploy on premises. Infrastructure Definitions For on premise, we have to create the directory structure under configuration/infrastructure. Let’s call it… 

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 Ansible. We already have several posts about Ansible on our blog platform but this one will be rather long. Setting up… 

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 my system, so I commented the apt-get and the debian-based part out. If you want to run the playbook on another operating… 

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. Ansible Ansible is a Open Source automation utility. It is used for orchestration and configuration as well as the administration of PCs/Servers. You could say, okay but we have puppet or saltstack or an other framework, why should… 

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 Manager. Connection First, Login to Cloudera manager URL. When you connect to C.M for the first time, you need to… 

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 us to configure all nodes for a manual installation using Cloudera Manager. Our playbook will contain the following roles: cm_repo:… 

Part 2 – vagrant up – get your Oracle infrastructure up an running

Last week in the first part of this blog we have seen a short introduction how to setup an Oracle Infrastructure with Vagrant and Ansible. Remember all the files for this example are available here https://github.com/nkadbi/oracle-db-12c-vagrant-ansible Get the example code: git clone https://github.com/nkadbi/oracle-db-12c-vagrant-ansible If you have prepared your environment with Ansible, Vagrant and Oracle Virtual Box installed – and provided… 

vagrant up – get your Oracle infrastructure up an running

By using Vagrant to manage your Virtual Machines and Ansible for configuration management and provisioning you can easily automate the setup of your whole test environment in a standardized way. If you have never heard about Ansible and Vagrant I try to give you an idea with the following very short  summary. There is a lot of good information available…