Ansible

Starting with Simple Ansible Playbooks

Creating simple ansible playbooks(…)

Ansible Basics Workshop day @dbi services

Today, I follow our Workshop Ansible Basics with Jérôme Witt. Why I follow this workshop? First, it’s to have the basics and Best Practices before begin myself and do “bricolage” by my customers.

Automating Linux patching with Ansible

Since the beginning of the year, several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux Kernel as well as in others important and widely-used packages. Among them, there was the famous CVE-2021-3156 affecting the sudo package and allowing(…)

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(…)

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(…)

redhat event Ansible Automates Zurich

Here are some fresh personal impressions from the “Ansible Automates Zurich” half day event organized by redhat. There was a overwhelming interest for this event. About 200 people filled the room and there were many more on the waiting(…)