Deploying a whole development environment ready using VMware templates and Ansible
Kad In this blog I will explain how I was able to deploy a whole ready environment ready to use as people like to call it “On-demand environments”. I was able…
Automation
Installing VMware Tools the different methods
This blog is showing the number of methods to install vmtools Cluster wide vmtools update vmtool update through virtual machine settings vmtools updates through powershell vmtools upgrade through upgrade options…
VM Customization specifications walk-through and setup
The VM Customization specification is good when you’re deploying a new vm from template you can use a custom options to configure your vm. VM customization specification can be used…
Ansible with VMware – Getting started with AWX gui – Part 22
AWX provides a web user interface to run playbooks and api’s and built on top ansible. Below guide is the initial setup after been deployed and connecting to vcenter, please…
Ansible with VMware – AWX injecting a username and password when running a playbook – vm from template – Part 21
I don’t want my password in clear text in playbooks so this how to encrypt the password in AWX and injecting into the playbook. AWX is similar to ansible tower…
Install rhel 8, install ansible, initial config and first playbook
Boot from red hat iso and select install Select English and English Australia Select installation destination Select done Select root password Type password Click done twice Select network and host…
Install rundeck on CentOS Stream 8
You can use Rundeck to execute workflows across your existing automation products like Ansible, Puppet, API script etc..Rundeck is free open source software and it has GUI you can use…
Ansible with VMware – templates – j2 for Jinja2 – Part 20
I will be creating a template from the sshd_config file, basically a copy of it that will be used to deploy to other manage nodes.Just remember different operating systems may…
Ansible with VMware – host variables and handler – Part 19
Host variables can be used to manage host at a another level by defining the variable or a name to define what you want it to do. Here I will…
Ansible with VMware – Using Roles to organize your playbooks runs and tasks– Part 18
Roles is about organizing your playbooks into a more organized look and feel. Instead of having one playbook for everything you can break it up.The groups in my inventory.ini file…