When we started using Satellite instead of patching servers using only Ansible playbooks, we noticed a dramatic decrease in the time needed to accomplish a task. Previously, patching took the operations team an
The core of the Linux operating system is the kernel. It handles the primary interaction between the hardware and the software. It also accomplishes tasks such as memory management, process management, system security, and hardware interactions, to name a few. Such an essential piece of the ope...
Since this post is about ansible wait_for module. Let us go with the same option. Consider the following playbook I have created for linux patching. It performsyum updateandrebootthe box and print theuptime The Playbook --- name:Patch the server and Reboothosts:appgather_facts:notasks:- na...
Ansible is an open source simple and powerful agentless IT automation tool, it can remove hard manual work from your life. As most of the IT Automation tools runs as a agent in remote host but it just need a SSH connection and Python to be installed on Linux remote servers to do the ...
Kubesprayis a composition of Ansible playbooks, inventory, provisioning tools, and domain knowledge for generic OS/Kubernetes cluster configuration management tasks. It provides a highly available cluster, composable attributes and support for the most popular Linux distributions. It has become the de-fa...
Figure 2. A sample of a CVE-2020-11651 patch limiting exposure methods Malicious actor had been quick to target platforms built on the management infrastructure. Cryptocurrency miners had infected cloud servers and consequently spiked CPU usage and overloaded systems in vuln...
If you are a Linux user, you may often find yourself installing and managing software packages using YUM, the default package manager for many Linux distributions. One useful feature of YUM is the ability to group packages together based on their functionality, which can make it easier to manag...
To complete this procedure, you will need: An AWS account (optional: 2 can be used to test on a multi account context). An edge device such as a RPI – or a Linux Amazon EC2 instance. AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) v2 configured on your laptop and on the device, wi...
Red Hat certification exams differ significantly from many competitors by being entirely hands-on. The exams present the participant with one or more virtual servers and a list of configuration objectives. Successfully passing the exams means correctly configuring the VMs to match the object...
Test Arc-enabled servers using an Azure VM Onboard to Microsoft Sentinel Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent using Ansible Migrate from legacy Log Analytics agents Deploy and configure Azure Monitor Agent using Azure Policy Remotely configure servers using Run command ...