Ansible

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(…)

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(…)

2016 is over and it was great, 2017 will be even more exciting in the open source area

Disclaimer: This will not be a technical post at all. The goal is to provide a short overview of what we did in 2016 and what we plan to do in 2017 when it comes to our(…)

Getting started with Ansible – Creating the PostgreSQL instance

In the last three posts we did the initial Ansible setup, installed the operating system packages, created the PostgreSQL group and user and downloaded, compiled and installed the PostgreSQL binaries from(…)

Getting started with Ansible – Download the PostgreSQL sources, compile and install

In the last post in this series we looked at how you can instruct Ansible to install packages on the operating system using the yum module and how you can create(…)

Getting started with Ansible – Installing OS packages, creating groups and users

It has been quite a while since the first post in this series: "Getting started with Ansible - Preparations". If you recap from the initial post Ansible was running on the control host and this simple Ansible(…)

Getting Ansible up and running on a SLES 12 SP1 host

Recently at a customer we had to setup Ansible on a SLES 12 SP1 host. In comparison to RedHat or Ubuntu based distributions there are some more steps to do as Ansible is not(…)

Getting started with Ansible – Preparations

When your infrastructure landscape becomes larger and larger you definitely need a tool which helps you in managing your servers, no matter if pḧysical or virtual, running in the cloud or not. One tool (many others are around) which assists(…)