ChatGPT made a big revolution in the 21st century and called big giants to think differently rather than polishing existing products. ChatGPT can respond like an actual human or even better. ChatBots become quite popular to provide basic information for simple queries. ChatGPT is powered by AI(Artificial intelligence) with deep learning techniques and developed by […]
Ansible engine
kubernetes cluster setup – k8s LAB using Kubespary – Part 1
How to set up a Kubernetes cluster in an automated fashion on our LAB environment? This article will walk you through kubernetes installation on Ubuntu on my windows 10 workstation. Getting hands-on on kubernetes is not a big task nowadays. There are hundreds of kubernetes variants available in the market including managed kubernetes environments like […]
What is Infrastructure as Code ? IaC
Define all your IT infrastructure as Code instead of creating it manually. So that Infrastructure resources can be easily re-created or replicated. Managing IT infrastructure might be a hard job in the past but not now. In the past, system administrators have to manually manage and configure all of the hardware and software that was […]
Open Source – Hybrid Cloud Automation Platform
Ansible and Terraform are market-leading automation tools. These tools are not competing with each other. But great things can be achieved when you combine them together. Terraform is the best multi-cloud provisioning tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure efficiently. Ansible on another hand where plays a significant role in configuration management. If the organization […]
Ansible – Validate Multiple conditions for a task
How to add multiple conditions for an ansible task? Here are some of the examples which will help you to pick the right one according to your need. Ansible is an open-source market-leading configuration management tool. It’s a complete automation tool that can be used from On-premise to cloud platforms. In some cases, ansible is […]
How to update the Ansible Tower Inventory using API?
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]