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Ansible
Streamlining OS Deployments
UPDATE: 2023-05-11 - I found this post in my backlog, and it was never published or finished, as you can see. This conversation continues to be something ...
Using ARA Records Ansible Within Projects
While exploring some options to provide a level of reporting capabilities as part of a project I figured using ARA would be an awesome idea. My goal was to p...
Ansible - Using YAML For Inventory
Backgroud
Ansible - Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster
Recently I started working on a little project which involved building a Kubernetes cluster using Raspberry Pi’s. I published this project on GitHub under an...
Ansible - Older Than N-Days Epoch
I recently had a scenario in which I needed to determine if a device’s last check-in time had been longer than 30 days. The real fun with this is that the re...
Ansible - IP Sets and DShield Block List
In this post, we are going to look into how we can leverage Ansible to manage a Linux firewall using ipset along with a DShield block list. Now, why would we...
Ansible - Defining Variables As Dictionaries
This post is to go through an example of defining Ansible variables as dictionaries rather than lists. I wanted to throw this together as I have not found a ...
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Ansible - MAAS Management
Several months back I was working quite a bit with MAAS and needed a way to fully automate not only the MAAS deployment but also the management of VMs. In th...
Generating/Executing Terraform Plans Using Ansible
Recently I have been working on a little project of my own based on provisioning a vSphere environment using Ansible as the primary automation tool. My inten...
Ansible 2.3.1 - sshpass Error
As you may or may not be aware, Ansible 2.3.1.0 was recently released. After installing Ansible 2.3.1.0 in my Python virtual environment I immediately ran in...
Ansible - Parsing CSV List Of Hosts (IP, hostname(s), MAC)
Recently I had a need to take an already populated spreadsheet which contained a list of hostnames, generic names, IP addresses and MAC addresses and convert...
Ansible - SSH Known Host Keys
I wanted to throw this together mainly for my own reference but maybe it will help someone else as well. I had a need to add every host’s ssh keys to every h...
Ansible - Provision Docker Swarm Mode (1.12)
Lately I have been working quite a bit with the latest Docker Swarm Mode released in Docker 1.12 and so far it has been pretty awesome. The days of spinning ...
Docker - Creating An Alpine Image With Ansible
As I am experimenting with Docker images and finding the right combination which works well for me the majority of the time. I have finally put together a si...
Docker - Ansible - ELK Stack
In this post we will be going over setting up a quick and easy way to standup ELK Stack using Docker containers for each of our components required. Keep in ...
Vagrant - Multi-Group Ansible Provisioning
As I continue to develop different scenario testing I continually try to leverage a common Vagrantfile across scenarios while only having to adjust variables...
Ansible - Using the set_facts module
Today I was writing/updating an Ansible role for installing Cacti monitoring and decided to add the ability to choose the back-end webserver being used. The ...
Docker - Building containers using Ansible
Have you thought about building Docker containers using some Ansible role(s) or playbook(s) you may already be using for your regular automated deployments? ...
Vagrant - Ansible Provisioning multi-nodes
I am just throwing this out here for my own reference because I seem to always forget how to do this when spinning up multiple nodes within a Vagrant environ...
Ansible - Setting up an Ansible Control Machine
In this post we will be setting up an Ansible Control Machine to execute our Ansible tasks from. This server will not have writable access to our Git repos s...
Ansible - Clean Formatted Playbooks
While going through and doing some cleanup to various different roles and playbooks in my Ansible collection I wanted to share what I feel is good clean form...
Ansible - Debian Based Gotchas - Part-1
As I am currently running through some Docker setups between Debian Jessie and Ubuntu Trusty using Ansible I ran into a few gotchas. Now I would have assumed...
Ansible - Discover and Backup PowerDNS
While working on a solution that requires PowerDNS, I have come to a point in which I would like to include backup and recovery options for this solution. So...
Packer - Vagrant - Ansible - Windows
While doing some Packer builds for Windows Server 2012 R2 to be used with Vagrant in order to do some Ansible learning I stumbled across this issue.
Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! – Manual-configured OSPF (Part 5)
In the previous post we setup our OSPF routing topology auto-configured using Ansible. Which works really nice when we already know what our variable definit...
Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! – Auto-configured OSPF (Part 4)
In the last post we spun up (Vagrant Up) our environment. So at this point we are ready to start exploring and seeing how easy it is to bring up OSPF auto-co...
Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! – Vagrant Up (Part 3)
In the last post we defined our nodes to spin up with Vagrant which will be used from here on out during our series. In this post we will actually be spinnin...
Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! – Prep-Work (Part 1)
In the previous post we went over the intro on what we will be setting up by going through each of these posts. In this post we will be setting up our enviro...
Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! – Define Nodes (Part 2)
In the previous post we prepped our environment in order to get everything ready to begin building out our environment. Which means we are now ready to final...
Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! - Intro
This will be the introduction to a multi-post series on some different methodologies that you too can use everyday either to learn, test or develop your goin...
Learning Vagrant and Ansible Provisioning
After attending Tech Field Day (#NFD10) there was a great deal of discussion around using Vagrant and Ansible for building out environments and provisioning ...
CMDB
Searching for the Source(s) of Truth in Holistic Automation
The Source of Truth (SoT) concept has become a cornerstone for achieving holistic automation in the ever-evolving IT and network management landscape. As org...
CentOS
Terraform - vSphere - CentOS 7 Customization Issues
I was recently working on a project to spin up about ~50 VMs which were all based on CentOS 7.4 and ran into an issue during the customization phase failing....
Consul
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Cumulus
Cumulus - Not Your Average Networking
Network Field Day 17
Docker
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Ansible - Provision Docker Swarm Mode (1.12)
Lately I have been working quite a bit with the latest Docker Swarm Mode released in Docker 1.12 and so far it has been pretty awesome. The days of spinning ...
Docker - Spinning Up A Graphite Container
As I am working through some testing methodologies for Infrastructure/app testing I wanted to throw together a usable Graphite image that I could easily spin...
Docker - Creating An Alpine Image With Ansible
As I am experimenting with Docker images and finding the right combination which works well for me the majority of the time. I have finally put together a si...
Docker - Ansible - ELK Stack
In this post we will be going over setting up a quick and easy way to standup ELK Stack using Docker containers for each of our components required. Keep in ...
Docker - Building containers using Ansible
Have you thought about building Docker containers using some Ansible role(s) or playbook(s) you may already be using for your regular automated deployments? ...
ELK
Docker - Ansible - ELK Stack
In this post we will be going over setting up a quick and easy way to standup ELK Stack using Docker containers for each of our components required. Keep in ...
Elasticsearch
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Filebeat
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
GitHub
Syncing GitLab and GitHub Repos
Purpose
GitLab
Syncing GitLab and GitHub Repos
Purpose
Grafana
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Hyper-V
Ubuntu 18.04 Templates - Duplicate IPs
Oh, the joy of Ubuntu 18.04 continually amazes me. As long as I have been using it, I have not provisioned mass VMs using a template. I use Packer for all of...
KVM
Ubuntu 18.04 Templates - Duplicate IPs
Oh, the joy of Ubuntu 18.04 continually amazes me. As long as I have been using it, I have not provisioned mass VMs using a template. I use Packer for all of...
KVM - VM Templates
It has been a minute since I had done any KVM based VMs so I wanted to share some little tidbits on creating your KVM templates. I will be focusing on Debian...
Migrating VMs from PF9 KVM to ESXi
I have been doing some testing over the past few months of Platform9 running on top of KVM and I have to admit that it has been a very good experience. Howev...
Kibana
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Kubernetes
Kubernetes - Upgrading Cluster To 1.10 - Part 1
NOTE: This post assumes that a Debian based OS is being used.
Ansible - Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster
Recently I started working on a little project which involved building a Kubernetes cluster using Raspberry Pi’s. I published this project on GitHub under an...
MAAS
Ansible - MAAS Management
Several months back I was working quite a bit with MAAS and needed a way to fully automate not only the MAAS deployment but also the management of VMs. In th...
Nautobot
Searching for the Source(s) of Truth in Holistic Automation
The Source of Truth (SoT) concept has become a cornerstone for achieving holistic automation in the ever-evolving IT and network management landscape. As org...
NetBox
Searching for the Source(s) of Truth in Holistic Automation
The Source of Truth (SoT) concept has become a cornerstone for achieving holistic automation in the ever-evolving IT and network management landscape. As org...
Netdata
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Opsmill Infrahub
Searching for the Source(s) of Truth in Holistic Automation
The Source of Truth (SoT) concept has become a cornerstone for achieving holistic automation in the ever-evolving IT and network management landscape. As org...
Packer
Streamlining OS Deployments
UPDATE: 2023-05-11 - I found this post in my backlog, and it was never published or finished, as you can see. This conversation continues to be something ...
Packer - Vagrant - Ansible - Windows
While doing some Packer builds for Windows Server 2012 R2 to be used with Vagrant in order to do some Ansible learning I stumbled across this issue.
PowerCLI
PowerCLI - VM and Host Metrics To Elasticsearch
While working on a project I came across a need/desire to capture vSphere metrics for VMs and Hosts and ship them to an Elasticsearch cluster. I wanted to do...
PowerDNS
Python - Manage PowerDNS Zones/Records
While working on another PowerDNS project I have started working on a Python script to manage Zones/Records. Being that there is not a ton of info out there ...
Ansible - Discover and Backup PowerDNS
While working on a solution that requires PowerDNS, I have come to a point in which I would like to include backup and recovery options for this solution. So...
PowerShell
PowerCLI - VM and Host Metrics To Elasticsearch
While working on a project I came across a need/desire to capture vSphere metrics for VMs and Hosts and ship them to an Elasticsearch cluster. I wanted to do...
Prometheus
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Python
Python - vSphere Host Networking Info
Oh I love Terraform so so much. But why does vSphere feel like a second class citizen? Is it because my use case is a real snowflake? Maybe, maybe not! Howev...
Python - Manage PowerDNS Zones/Records
While working on another PowerDNS project I have started working on a Python script to manage Zones/Records. Being that there is not a ton of info out there ...
Python - NMAP/SSH Fun
I am currently working on some Ansible/Python project(s) (More to come on that soon) and am working on integrating some functionality between some of the mov...
Reporting
Using ARA Records Ansible Within Projects
While exploring some options to provide a level of reporting capabilities as part of a project I figured using ARA would be an awesome idea. My goal was to p...
ServiceNow
Searching for the Source(s) of Truth in Holistic Automation
The Source of Truth (SoT) concept has become a cornerstone for achieving holistic automation in the ever-evolving IT and network management landscape. As org...
Source of Truth
Searching for the Source(s) of Truth in Holistic Automation
The Source of Truth (SoT) concept has become a cornerstone for achieving holistic automation in the ever-evolving IT and network management landscape. As org...
StackStorm
StackStorm Series - Spinning Up Environment
This post is the next in the StackStorm Series. You can find the previous posts in the series below:
StackStorm Series - Getting Started
As mentioned in the previous post StackStorm Series - Intro we will be working through a series of posts in regards to StackStorm. In this post we will revie...
StackStorm Series - Intro
You may or may not have heard of StackStorm previously. If you have not I highly recommend checking them out. StackStorm is classified as Event-Driven Automa...
Terraform
Terraform - vSphere - CentOS 7 Customization Issues
I was recently working on a project to spin up about ~50 VMs which were all based on CentOS 7.4 and ran into an issue during the customization phase failing....
Generating/Executing Terraform Plans Using Ansible
Recently I have been working on a little project of my own based on provisioning a vSphere environment using Ansible as the primary automation tool. My inten...
VMware
CFD6 VMware API Questions
CFD6 VMware API Questions
Nested ESXi Templates
Over the past week I have been working on a streamlined process to deploy nested ESXi 6.7 via automation tooling. Going through this I came across an issue w...
Ubuntu - VMware Template Cleanup Script
Just sharing these scripts in case anyone ever needs/wants a quick way to prep an Ubuntu VM template with/without guest customizations. One script is just a ...
Migrating VMs from PF9 KVM to ESXi
I have been doing some testing over the past few months of Platform9 running on top of KVM and I have to admit that it has been a very good experience. Howev...
VMware Workstation
VMware Workstation - Enter Serial Number From Linux CLI
Well, this was a fun exercise. While building out some VMs to execute Packer image builds for vSphere, I installed VMware Workstation via Ansible and forgot ...
Vagrant
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
Vagrant - Multi-Group Ansible Provisioning
As I continue to develop different scenario testing I continually try to leverage a common Vagrantfile across scenarios while only having to adjust variables...
Vagrant Box Templates
Over the past few months I have been putting together some Vagrant box templates based on different Linux distros all using Packer. My goal is to have a stan...
Vagrant - Complex Vagrantfile Configurations
I will be using this a reference for adding various Vagrant configurations for setting up testing environments. I really just wanted to put this out here bec...
Vagrant - Ansible Provisioning multi-nodes
I am just throwing this out here for my own reference because I seem to always forget how to do this when spinning up multiple nodes within a Vagrant environ...
Vagrant - Adding a second hard drive
I was just working on some Vagrant lab stuff and had a need to spin up a Vagrant node with more than one hard drive. So I turned to google and did some searc...
Packer - Vagrant - Ansible - Windows
While doing some Packer builds for Windows Server 2012 R2 to be used with Vagrant in order to do some Ansible learning I stumbled across this issue.
Vagrant - Multi-NIC Definitions via YAML
I am currently working on a little routing project to use as a learning tool for others to easily consume by using Vagrant and Ansible (Inspired by this post...
Learning Vagrant and Ansible Provisioning
After attending Tech Field Day (#NFD10) there was a great deal of discussion around using Vagrant and Ansible for building out environments and provisioning ...
Vault
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
ZFS
ZFS - Replication Backups
I recently rebuilt my lab NAS hosts with Ubuntu 16.04 and used ZFS for the storage pools (once again). In doing it this time around I wanted to get a good me...
cAdvisor
Learn Micro Services Monitoring - Vagrant Provisioned Using Ansible
As I continue to work through some previous little projects I have worked on over the past year or so I came across this one which I think is very useful, es...
vSphere
Ubuntu 18.04 Templates - Duplicate IPs
Oh, the joy of Ubuntu 18.04 continually amazes me. As long as I have been using it, I have not provisioned mass VMs using a template. I use Packer for all of...
Python - vSphere Host Networking Info
Oh I love Terraform so so much. But why does vSphere feel like a second class citizen? Is it because my use case is a real snowflake? Maybe, maybe not! Howev...
Terraform - vSphere - CentOS 7 Customization Issues
I was recently working on a project to spin up about ~50 VMs which were all based on CentOS 7.4 and ran into an issue during the customization phase failing....