Ansible 👨‍💻

All my posts about Ansible

14 posts

Walk-throughs and field notes on Ansible - playbooks, roles, dynamic inventories, and using it to drive provisioning across cloud and on-prem fleets. Most of these posts come from production-shaped problems I hit while writing or reviewing my Ansible books, so they lean towards 'here is what actually worked' rather than greenfield demos.

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Ansible 👨‍💻Azure ☁️

Ansible and the Azure Rest API

Learn how Ansible utilizes Azure REST API for efficient resource management, with insights on azure_rm_resource module and Visual Studio Code extension.

DevOps 🦾Ansible 👨‍💻

Ansible AWX

Author Russ Mckendrick explores Ansible AWX, the open-source version of Ansible Tower. Follow his guide to quickly set up AWX with CentOS 7 using Vagrant.

Ansible 👨‍💻AWS ☁️

Annoying Ansible Quirk

Discover a workaround for an annoying quirk in Ansible playbook execution. Learn why pre-tasks were ignored and how to ensure their execution.

Infrastructure as Code 🤖Ansible 👨‍💻

Amazon Web Services with Ansible

Explore how Russ Mckendrick utilizes Ansible to manage Amazon Web Services infrastructure, from VPC creation to EC2 instance deployment and AMI management.

Linux 🐧Automation 🤖

First Steps with Ansible

Explore Ansible for AWS automation, transitioning from manual scripting. Initiate playbook for VPC and ELB deployment.