Ansible - Sneak Peak of something coming soon :)
So I started working on some theoretical ideas about 6-9 months ago around using Quagga in a highly scalable HA scenario and put it down for a bit. Now that ...
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Ansible Playbook - GlusterFS - Apache
Read this first (June 2026): GlusterFS is effectively legacy now. Red Hat ended Gluster Storage and disbanded its engineering team at the end of 2024, ups...
Ansible Playbook - LVM
Refreshed June 2026: the original used bare module names with the old key=value argument style, installed the wrong package on RHEL, and shelled out to lv...
Creating vSphere VMs using Ansible
Refreshed June 2026: the original used the vsphere_guest module, the pysphere Python library, Ansible 1.8.4, and vCenter 6.0. All four are gone. vsphere_g...
vSphere 6.0 Syslog Configuration
So in setting up a new ELK Stack from scratch (more on this later) and also standing up the GA release of vSphere 6.0 I had to go through setting up syslog f...