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Ansible – What is Roles ? Playbook vs Role
Playbook is often used to complete simple tasks. When you would like to perform the multiple tasks, restarting services and copying files for a single job, you must consider using “roles” instead of...
View ArticleSpinbackup – Office 365 & Google’s G Suite – 360 Degree Data Protection
Spinbackup’s provides a fully featured solution for Google’s G Suite environment, including data loss and data leak protection as well as their cyber security features. Spinbackup is releasing the same...
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Ansible – Download Roles from Ansible Galaxy
Writing Playbooks and Roles are simple but yet to spend time for referring to the module’s man pages and need to build the logic with proper error handling. Ansible galaxy is a place where you can get...
View ArticleHow to Encrypt Playbook using Ansible Vault ?
Ansible provides a secure mechanism to store sensitive information in an encrypted format. In some cases, we might need to supply account password or secure key in the playbook. If we store such a...
View ArticleAnsible Tower (Licensed) vs Ansible AWX (Open Source)
Ansible Tower offers a graphical user interface with role-based access control method for the end users. Tower enables to use ansible engine‘s rich features to everyone including non-technical people....
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Ansible – How to Install and configure AWX ?
Ansible AWX deployment is simple if you have an existing docker environment. AWX is an opensource project and the community is offering AWX in the form of container. AWX requires multiple components...
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Ansible Tower / AWX – How to Create Manual SCM Project ?
AWX / Ansible Tower offers a graphical user interface and role-based access control to make ansible for everyone. Once the AWX / Ansible Tower is deployed, the first step is to create the project to...
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Ansible Tower/AWX – Organization/Team/Users – Hierarchy
Ansible AWX/Tower offers multilevel access delegation and role-based access control to the organization. An organization is a logical collection of Users, Teams, Projects, and Inventories. It is the...
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AWX / Ansible Tower – Inventory & Bulk Hosts Import
AWX / Ansible Tower’s inventory is a key component to start the automation. Creating the inventory could be a lengthy process when you use the graphical user interface. AWX/Tower offers multiple...
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Ansible Tower / AWX – Store Credential & Custom Credentials Type
Ansible Tower / AWX provides an option to store multiple credentials in an encrypted format. It supports multiple credential types which include AWS, Google Cloud computing, Insights, Redhat...
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Ansible Tower / AWX – Creating New Job Template
Ansible Job template is used to incorporate the playbook in the web interface. Before start creating the template, you must create the playbook and keep it ready in the project path. We also need to...
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Ansible Tower / AWX – Configuring Role Based Access (RBAC)
Ansible Tower/ AWX offers role-based access control for templates and workflows. It provides an option to define what kind of access needs to be given to a specific team or specific member within the...
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Ansible Tower / AWX – Creating Workflow Template
Ansible workflow combines one or more resources links together in a sequence of disparate resources with conditional job results. This allows us to create a template for each task and combine in one...
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Ansible Tower / AWX – Creating SCM Git Project in Ansible
Ansible playbooks and roles must be kept in the Git repositories. Git provides a great mechanism to track the changes in the source code (i.e Playbooks). It also allows playbook developers to create a...
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Ansible Tower / AWX – Passing Variables using SURVEY (extra-vars)
Ansible Tower’s Survey one of the cool feature which can be used to populate the variables every time the Template is executed. Ansible playbook might contain one more user variable depends on the use...
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Ansible Tower / AWX – Trigger Ansible Job using REST API
Ansible AWX / Ansible Tower supports RESTfull API calls. It provides greater flexibility that you no need to be in Ansible Tower/AWX console to start the template or read the ansible job results. You...
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How to Install and Configure Jenkins on Redhat/ CentOS 7?
Installing and configuring Jenkins on Redhat Linux / CentOS is very straight forward. Jenkins is a very famous tool among developers. Jenkins is an open source automation platform written in Java. The...
View ArticleAnsible Tower / AWX – Installing & Configuring Tower-cli
Tower-CLI (tower-cli) is a command line tool for managing Ansible Tower/AWX. It allows Tower commands to be easily run from the Unix/Linux command line. This command line tool sends commands to the...
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Packer Automation – Build Redhat/CentOS VM on VMware vSphere
In this article, we will be walking through the building of Redhat Enterprise Linux 7/CentOS 7 VM using ISO on VMware vSphere environment. Packer is very useful to build your base images on the cloud...
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Backup/Restore – Ansible AWX – tower-cli
How to Backup Ansible AWX? Ansible Tower comes along with “setup.sh“ to backup the database. If you are using the AWX (Ansible Tower’s upstream project), you could leverage tower-cli to take the...
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