Ansibleis an awesome automation tool for Linux sysadmins. It is an open source configuration tool which allows sysadmins to manage hundreds of servers from one centralize node i.eAnsible Server. Ansible is the preferred configuration tool when it is compared with similar tools likePuppet,ChefandSalt...
most of the IT Automation tools runs as a agent in remote host, but ansible just need a SSH connection and Python (2.4 or later) to be installed on the remote nodes to perform it’s action.
Note: If you have already read my colleague Ashraf Hassan's great articleIntroducing the new Ansible Private Automation Hub, then you know what it is and how itssoftware-as-a-service (SaaS)model works. I encourage you to read this article to learn some core concepts and then come back her...
and the learning curve isn’t too steep. There is a module, in particular, we want to look at, the Ansible copy module, and see how we can use it to copy files between a local machine and a
As a new sysadmin, you might start with just a few playbooks. But as your automation skills continue to grow, and you become more familiar with Ansible, you will learn best practices and further realize that as your playbooks increase, usingAnsible Galaxybecomes invaluable. ...
- hosts:localhostbecome:truetasks:-name:installanacronansible.builtin.package:name:anacronstate:present Using anacron and Ansible for easy automation To install anacron with Ansible, I run the playbook: $ ansible-playbook ~/Ansible/setup-anacron.yaml ...
Ansible is a widely used automation tool that can manage hundreds of nodes in one go. Ansible has lots of great features, and one of them is its ability to manage a single line within a file on remote nodes using theAnsible lineinfile module. ...
Ansible offers a simple architecture that doesn’t require special software to be installed on nodes. It also provides a robust set of features and built-in modules which facilitate writing automation scripts. This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in...
For On-prem installation: Delete the current image of current Control Plane Execution Environment : Raw # su - awx $ podman rmi registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel8:latest Pull the image with version1.0.0-389and tag it to latest : ...
ChefandPuppet, these are often more complex than many people want or need.Ansibleis a great alternative to these options because it offers an architecture that doesn’t require special software to be installed on nodes, using SSH to execute the automation tasks and YAML files to define provision...