Puppet provide a really great learning experience free of charge for everyone in the form of the Puppet Learning VM. The VM includes Puppet Enterprise, Puppet Server, Bolt and a bunch of virtual clients (thanks to incorporating Docker) for you to use to become more familiar with the...
Note: This post presumes that you have completed the steps in the previous posts, starting with Ansible Lab – Getting Started Sample Files Did you know that when you installed Ansible it provided inventory and configuration file templates for you? Let’s take a look. On the Ansible server...
Note: This post presumes that you have completed the steps in the previous post Ansible Lab – Getting Started Creating Our Inventory File Now that we have our Ansible server and a Centos7 server node, we can run commands on the Ansible server to test connectivity. First...
What Is This? This is your 5 minute introduction to Ansible. On your marks, get set.. GO! What Is Ansible? Ansible is a software solution that provides the ability to automate software deployment and configuration management. It does this through using existing technologies such as SSH and...
Sometimes, getting started with a technology solution can be a bit daunting. I have to say that starting out with Ansible felt like that, however once you get started you realise how well thought out the solution is. Given half a day you can get up and running....
This is the first in a series of posts introducing Cloud Automation. Although there are already blog posts and articles discussing this, I have decided I should put my own thoughts across. People have different views on what Cloud Automation is. Here is mine in very simple terms....