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Everything is simple when we write a playbook that does one thing. We have a powerful tool for expressing dependencies: the task order. But sometimes we want more than one target. We want to deploy something, then cleanup something. Or even build som...
I know… There is lots of articles on this rather basic topic. I’m not consider myself an expert. Maybe someone find helpful a HOWTO on this particular combination of technologies. TL;DR I’m going to create a simple workflow for deploying a Terraform ...
So. You have you playbook in git and you want to keep some variables invisible to others. You probably should go for a ‘real’ password manager like Hashicorp Vault. Or pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/). Both have ready to use lookup plugins in An...
Ok. Your boos asked your to collect all installed packages on all servers… I already see you running a command on every servers, redirecting output to a temp file, fetching data, merging files… Wake up! It’s only nightmare. You can do it easy way. Fo...
You want to start with ansible? Good luck. Bye… Oh no! I’m writing a blog. I must help you. Let’s start. Install Ansible I assume you have python3 / pip / virtualenv working on your system. We don’t want to mess up, so we’re going to use virtualenv. ...
