Usually if you create a Vagrant VM an insecure private key gets injected into the VM, which is located at ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key. In Ansible you can reference that key to ensure a passwordless login to the VM. Since Vagrant 1.8.5 this doesn’t work anymore, because of security reasons. That’s why I use now this shell provisionerContinue reading “Inject SSH pub key to Vagrant image”
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Setting up a Server for Ansible
Ansible is a great tool for automation and configuration management. Maybe you heard already about Chef and Puppet. Ansible is in the same field, but with a much simpler approach. The big advantage of Ansible is that you don’t need a central master server for it and you don’t need to install an “Ansible” clientContinue reading “Setting up a Server for Ansible”
Global Variables with Ansible
Ansible is a great tool for IT automation. It’s similar to Chef and Puppet, just better! I wrote here already an introduction to Ansible. In Ansible you have roles and playbooks. A playbook can contain several roles. Inside a role you can have tasks, files, handlers and variables. But sometimes you want to use aContinue reading “Global Variables with Ansible”
Introduction to Ansible
Ansible is a great tool for IT automation. I’m using Ansible to manage the whole infrastructure for VersionEye. Currently I have 36 roles and 15 playbooks defined for VersionEye. I can setup the whole infrastructure with 1 single command! Or just parts of it. I even use Ansible for deployments. Deploying the VersionEye crawlers into the Amazon CloudContinue reading “Introduction to Ansible”
Robert Reiz 