Ansible
How To Deploy The Google Cloud Ops Agent With Ansible
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Operations teams responsible for operating virtual machines (VMs) are always looking for ways to provide a more reliable, more scalable environment for their development partners. Part of providing that stable experience is having telemetry data (metrics, logs and traces) from systems and applications so you can monitor and troubleshoot effectively. …
What’s The Difference Between Orchestration And Automation?
Both terms imply that things happen without your direct intervention. But the way you get to those results, and the tools you use to make them happen, differ. For the longest time, it seemed the only thing any sysadmin cared about was automation. Recently, though, the mantra seems to have changed from automation to orchestration, …
DevOps + Serverless = Event Driven Automation
Does Cloud Native technology replace older DevOps tools, like Kubernetes replacing configuration management? Or does it supplement it instead? Replacement is a popular narrative, but it’s much more effective to use the new technologies to enhance and rebuild the older ones. In our case, we’re going to explain how we use Kubernetes, CloudEvents, and Knative …
A Project Manager’s Guide To Ansible
Ansible is best known for IT automation, but it can streamline operations across the entire organization. From application deployment to provisioning, Ansible is a powerful open source tool for automating routine IT tasks. It can help an organization’s IT run smoothly, with core IT processes networked and maintained. Ansible is an advanced IT orchestration solution, and it …
Here’s What You Need To Know To Get Started With Ansible
Ansible is a software tool that provides simple but powerful automation for cross-platform computer support. It is primarily intended for IT professionals, who use it for application deployment, updates on workstations and servers, cloud provisioning, configuration management, intra-service orchestration, and nearly anything a systems administrator does on a weekly or daily basis. Ansible doesn’t depend on …
How To Install Azure PIP Package For Ansible
Overview Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible can be used to provision Azure resources. Prerequisites Ubuntu 18.04 Ansible has been installed. See here on how to install. Python has been installed. By …
How To Install Ansible In Ubuntu
Overview Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Prerequisites Ubuntu 18.04 Installation 01. Update the repository 02. Install software-properties-common 03. Add package repository for Ansible 04. Install Ansible 05. Verify …