Ansible Tower offers various REST API to integrate with other tools. I had come across the scenario where the playbook needs to update tower inventory after provisioning cloud instance. tower-cli is one of the methods to update/import inventory on ansible tower but at the time of writing this article, tower-cli is not supported by Red […]
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Ansible Tower License expired? How to renew it?
Ansible tower requires a valid license to run any job. Red Hat License management is much easier if you directly manage from the Red Hat subscription portal. But in some cases, you might receive the license from Red Hat sales execute to renew/extended the licenses. This article will cover both scenarios to extend expired licenses. […]
Azure Cloud Shell – Create a Linux VM using Terraform?
How fast you can spin up a VM in Azure Cloud? Have you experienced an azure cloud shell and terraform builder tool? Let’s quickly spin up a Linux VM using terraform code from Azure Cloud Shell. There are 100 ways to build the VM but this article just shows the robustness of the terraform and […]
How to use Terraform from Azure Cloud Shell?
How to use terraform from Azure cloud shell? Do we need to install an additional package to use terraform? Nope. Azure provides commonly used CLI tools including Linux shell interpreters, PowerShell modules, Azure tools, text editors, source control, build tools (ex: terraform), and more in cloud shell. This makes azure builders to quickly deploy Azure […]
How Will Business Intelligence Be Applied in the Next Decade?
In a September article here, we made note of the staggering projected growth rate of the business intelligence market. The article was titled ‘Global Business Intelligence Market to Be Worth $147.19 Billion in 2025’ and cited a Market Watch report predicting a CAGR of 26.98% between now and that time. In the same article, we pointed to […]
Ansible – How to Prepare template using Variables ? Jinja2
Ansible is very flexible configuration management tool and offers wide range of options to perform certain tasks. I am very often use Jinja2 template option to complete the following tasks. Create configuration files using extra variables Create email templates based on playbook results. Prepare Terraform TF files. Template Config files: 1. Let’s create a new […]
Automation – Add DNS A Record using Ansible Playbook
DNS resource records added automatically when windows instances is registered on domain. For Linux instances, you have to add the records manually on DNS server. Let’s explorer that how to create A records in DNS using Ansible Playbook. This playbook can be integrated as part of server provisioning workflow to speed up the build process. […]
Global Business Intelligence Market to be Worth $147.19 Billion in 2025
A recent report from insight generator Market Watch predicts that the global business intelligence market will enjoy a compounded annual growth rate of 26.98% in the next six years and will be valued at $147.19 billion by 2025. More and more organizations are turning to data-driven decision making to address the challenges of complex business decisions. […]
Ansible reboot module – Shutdown Command Not found on Linux
Ansible is a widely used configuration management tool. Opensource community and RedHat aggressively developing to create modules for each task. In Ansible 2.7, reboot module is responsible to reboot the host and wait to come back. But the Linux image development varies for each organization. In some environment, engineers might remove shutdown command from the […]
How to Boost Ansible playbook Speed ?
How to increase the ansible playbook execution speed? One who is running the playbook against more than 100 hosts could witness the slowness if it’s not fine-tuned. Ansible has few configurable parameters which can reduce the playbook execution time significantly. As a result of the fine-tuning ansible, playbook execution time has been reduced from 4hours […]