A Maintainable Ansible Playbook Structure
A small project layout for turning a working Ansible playbook into reusable roles without losing clarity.
Ansible
Ansible Loops
Loops in Ansible allow you to repeat a task multiple times with different input values.
Privilege Escalation: How a `remote_user` and a `become_user` works
One of its Ansible’s features is the ability to execute tasks with elevated privileges, often necessary for managing system configurations. This process is known as privilege escalation.
Ansible Magic Variables: Useful Context Without Guesswork
A practical guide to Ansible's built-in context variables, including hostvars, groups, inventory_hostname, and facts.
Ansible Configuration: Make the Defaults Explicit
How ansible.cfg, inventory settings, and environment variables fit together in a manageable project.
Getting Started with Ansible: From One Command to a Playbook
A gentle introduction to Ansible inventory, ad-hoc commands, and the first repeatable playbook.
Ansible Variables
Variables are a crucial part of Ansible and are used to store values that can be used across playbooks, roles, and tasks.
Python Virtual Enviroments
Continuing from the blog, Virtual environments are isolated Python environments that allow you to manage dependencies separately for each project, providing a controlled and reproducible environment…
`lookup`: Ansible
Ansible’s lookup plugin allows you to access data from a variety of sources, including files, templates, and external programs.
VENV: Ansible
Ansible and Molecule are popular tools for configuration management and testing in the world of DevOps.
Ansible Configuration: `ansible.cfg`
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The file can be placed in various locations, such as the current directory, user’s home directory, /etc/ansible/, and /etc/ansible/conf.d/.
Ansible: Variables
Ansible Variables are used to store values that can be reused throughout an Ansible playbook.
Ansible: Templates
Templates in Ansible are a type of file that contain configuration information or scripts written in a Jinja2 templating language.
Ansible: SSH Access
To set up SSH access for inventory hosts in Ansible, follow these steps:
Ansible: Building Inventory
An Ansible inventory is a file that defines the hosts and groups of hosts that Ansible will manage. Inventory files are used to define the nodes (hosts) that will be managed by Ansible.
Ansible: A thought
Ansible is an open-source software platform for automating and managing IT infrastructure.
Ansible: Structure of a playbook?
The structure of an Ansible playbook includes the following elements:
Ansible: Refresher
Ansible is an open-source software platform for automating and configuring computer systems.