Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise IT, automation has transcended from being a “nice-to-have” to mission-critical infrastructure. While most organizations recognize Ansible as a powerful configuration management tool, its true potential lies in addressing complex, multi-dimensional challenges that traditional automation approaches often struggle with. This exploration uncovers Ansible’s lesser-known capabilities and presents innovative […]
Do you know how Ansible works? Well, before we walk you through how to setup dynamic inventory, here’s some food for thoughts on Ansible Configuration Management System A user using configuration management system will often want to save inventory in a different software system. As described in inventory, a basic text-based system is provided by […]
Continuous Delivery is the methodology or a software strategy where code changes are automatically built, tested, and prepared for a release to production. Continuous Delivery makes the code deployment possible at any time by a single click. Continuous Delivery takes care of the testing process before each deployment in any environment. It first runs the […]
Ansible is a configuration management tool which configures and manages systems for multi-node software deployment. It is an orchestration tool which prevents an agent from running continuously on a server to fetch the desired configurations. Unlike Chef and Puppet, it uses a push mechanism to push the desired changes on the servers using ssh-agent. Here in […]
My previous blog talks about overview of ansible, installation steps and a small demo on basic functionality of ansible. Ref Link Ansible-Configuration Management System Scope This blog will help you understand the basics of playbook and its terminologies. Ansible Playbook A playbook consists of simple set of steps called tasks that run on remote machines […]
Purpose: We have seen various instances of manual configuration on multiple servers which are similar and repetitive. When it comes to automate such tasks an easy process comes in mind – Configuration Management. There are several such tools available for this purpose. Ansible is one such tool that can be used for configuration management tasks, […]