In Ansible, passing a variable from one playbook to another playbook is not a straight forward. (If the target hosts are different). We might need to get the variable value from one host and use that value against another host in some cases. This article will provide a solution to overcome this kind of tricky situation in Ansible. Here are the scenarios […]
Configuration Management
Jenkins – Ansible – Configure Dynamic Inventory
Are you using Jenkins as front-end GUI for Ansible Automation? Have you ever tried the dynamic inventory in Jenkin’s Ansible plugin? Ansible Inventory can be created using the plugin’s dynamic inventory feature. This feature could be very useful when you want to pass hosts as user-defined input and that’s is not part any of the […]
Jenkins – Store Console Output in Linux Filesystem – Artifacts
How to store Jenkins job’s console output in another system? There are much opensource software is available to store the logs and retrieve logs in time. Jfrog is one of the most famous artifact solutions. Here, we will be using native Linux/Unix commands to pull the Jenkins logs and store it in local/NFS filesystem for […]
Jenkins Console – Xterm Terminal – Colorized Ansible playbook Output
This artcile will walk through the installing and configuring Ansicolor plugin in Jenkins to make colorized output in ansible playbook stdout. Jenkins console is very plain and simple. If you are using Jenkins to run the ansible playbook, you might notice that colorful output might be missing. Ansible Tower/AWX offers the colorful stdout in the […]
Ansible 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 Tower RESTful API. It is capable of retrieving, creating, modifying, and deleting most resources within the Tower. It also used for creating objects […]
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 creator of Jenkins is Kohsuke Kawaguchi and it has been developed when he was working at Sun Microsystems. Jenkins supports most of the […]
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 could post the API from anywhere. It could be a web portal or from your laptop using POSTMAN/SoapUI. This article will […]
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 new branch and work on the codes without impacting the production. Ansible offers an option to pull the new codes on […]
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 CloudForms, OpenStack, Network, VMware vCenter, and Redhat Satellite. We could also add custom credential type to authenticate with other components. In the first part of the article, we […]
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 methods to add the hosts into inventory. In this article, we will see that how to add the hosts in Ansible Tower/ AWX inventory using GUI and […]