I will show you several operations which an administrator can perform on a remote windows system using ansible-playbook. Ansible is one of the most used DevOps tools in the market today. It provides a bunch of windows modules that are used to configure and manage the Windows server. I assume you already have Ansible installed…
Let me quickly show you how to connect the Windows server from Ansible running on Ubuntu. To follow the steps below, you need to have python 3.x and Ansible installed on both the system. You can follow the below articles if you need help. How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu? How to install…
Love Ansible, but wondering how to get it running on Windows? Ansible is one of the most popular configuration administration and infrastructure automation tools. It helps to automate infrastructure configuration/provisioning, software deployments, and general infrastructure management. Ansible was initially available on Linux. However, with Microsoft’s new viewpoint on open source, their community improvements, and their…
Ad-hoc Commands are used in Ansible to execute tasks instantly, and you need not save them for later use. This article is all about Ansible Ad-hoc Command. There are multiple tasks in Ansible where you don’t need to write a separate Ansible playbook for it; you can just run an ansible ad-hoc command for that…
Learn about Ansible Playbook to automate the tasks. Previously, we discussed Ansible introduction, installation guide, and next, let’s talk about Playbook and its building blocks. What is Ansible Playbook? The playbook is Ansible automation language. It is a simple file with a set of instructions. It is in playbooks where we define what we want…
Heard about Ansible but not sure what it is? Don’t worry, you will know about Ansible in the next 5 minutes. What is Ansible? Ansible is an open source DevOps tool which can help the business in configuration management, deployment, provisioning, etc. It is straightforward to deploy; it leverages SSH to communicate between servers. It…
Getting started with Ansible on Ubuntu for better environment provisioning and configuration management. Configuration Management is a crucial stage in DevOps lifecycle. It helps in automation and orchestration of the IT infrastructure. There are several tools for configuration management, for example, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack. And, of course, Ansible which is one of the most…
Good news: DevOps is in demand. Bad news: You’re still using legacy tools. Good news: Use Docker In this article, First, we will understand the DevOps and demand of DevOps in the IT industry are, and then we will discuss the importance of Docker in the world of DevOps, including some of the best tutorials…
Build your own cloud and save millions! There are so many things to take care of, such as server space, development environments, security, software stacks, software updates, hardware maintenance, that the whole platform maintenance costs tend to be overwhelming. Companies that develop and deploy applications need to allocate lots of its resources to keep the…
Manage OpenStack efficiently with these open source tools. In the world of the cloud, the prime fundamental is to automate everything when it appears to on-demand cloud services. Working in software production usually comes down to continuous deployments and operating an environment distributed all over the world, specifically with the on-demand cloud services. OpenStack is…
