Ansible, the popular automation tool, empowers organizations to streamline their IT operations and boost productivity. With its extensive module library, Ansible offers a wide range of capabilities to manage and configure systems. One such invaluable resource is ansible-doc, a command that provides comprehensive documentation for Ansible modules. In this blog post, we will delve into…
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As Ansible users, we all want to make the most out of this popular open-source configuration management tool. However, even with its relative ease of use, we can still make common mistakes that can lead to errors and inefficiencies. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the most common mistakes that Ansible users make…
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Web application security is of paramount importance in today’s digital landscape. Organizations need robust tools to identify vulnerabilities and safeguard their applications against potential threats. One such powerful solution is Burp Suite Community—a comprehensive web application security testing tool developed by PortSwigger. In this blog post, we will explore the installation process and highlight the…
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As DevOps practitioners, we know that managing infrastructure can be a daunting task. That’s why we use configuration management tools to automate the repetitive processes and reduce manual effort. One such tool that has gained popularity in recent years is Ansible. In this post, we will discuss the main advantages of Ansible compared to other…
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Ansible is one of the popular IT automation tools used to make complex configuration, software provisioning, application deployment, and management tasks easier. It is used in IT operational tasks such as: In this guide on PostgreSQL Database Management with Ansible, I will show you how to automate PostgreSQL operations using Ansible.
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In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, effective orchestration and automation of IT operations are paramount for maintaining efficiency and scalability. DevOps teams constantly seek innovative solutions to streamline their workflows and enhance collaboration. This blog post explores the combination of Rundeck, a powerful job scheduler, and Docker, a lightweight containerization platform, with the added prowess of…
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Ansible Semaphore is a web-based tool for managing Ansible projects and workflows. It provides a graphical user interface that allows us to view and manage our Ansible tasks, playbooks, and inventories in a centralized location. With Semaphore, we can easily manage and monitor our Ansible workflows, schedule and automate tasks, and collaborate with team members…
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Ansible is an open-source automation tool that allows you to automate IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration. Ansible uses a simple YAML syntax called playbooks to define automation tasks. With tweaking our project directory a bit we can achieve a very flexible and comfortable structure.
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Ansible callback plugins enable adding new behaviors to Ansible when responding to events. By default, callback plugins control most of the output we see when running the command line programs, but can also be used to add additional output, integrate with other tools and marshal the events to a storage backend.
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What is your opinion? Do you think an online webinar would be beneficial for your career about Ansible, the basics of infrastructure automation and such topics? Let’s vote and comment!
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Installing web servers, database services and such tools are tedious task especially when we have to repeat it over and over again, for example in a test environment. Here are some useful playbooks that we can use to simplify the process.
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Molecule is the official testing framework for Ansible roles. It provides a streamlined way to create a virtualized environment to test the syntax and functionality of a role.
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VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizaton for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. The VirtualBox Guest Additions are extra pieces of software that enable better performance and functionality in virtual machines. We install Guest Additions inside the virtual machine to activate this functionality. In VirtualBox, we can install Guest Additions by selecting…
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Configuring the network interfaces of Linux machines can be tedious and unpredictable if we do it by hand. Let’s automatize the procedure and minimize the possible mistakes with using Ansible! This example uses Debian, but it can be easily ported to any platform. Here’s my example playbook that can be used to configure network for…
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Docker Engine is an open source containerization technology for building and containerizing our applications. Docker Engine acts as a client-server application with a server with a long-running daemon process dockerd and APIs which specify interfaces that programs can use to talk to and instruct the Docker daemon. Docker Engine is available on a variety of…
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