Ansible

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,(…)

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(…)

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(…)

Scanning Ansible code with Ansible Lint

Introduction It’s always good to learn something new. But doing it the right way from the very beginning is even better. I recently started to work with Ansible and after creating a few roles, I quickly realized that there(…)

Deploy a Kubernetes cluster using Ansible in AWS

After more than 2 years of experience in Kubernetes cluster administration, I am deeply convinced that one of the most important things to have as an ops guy is a sandbox cluster at your disposal. This can be either a(…)

Use Ansible like a Programming Language

I did not intend to create a new blog on Ansible so fast, but here it comes. My previous blog on that topic was a first step in Ansible world. Now, it is time to use some of the(…)