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”
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Docker Introduction
Docker is one of the most promising technologies these days. It is a container technology based on Linux. A very lightweight form of virtualization. Docker containers can be as small as 50 MB. Much smaller than traditional VMs. The Docker project was started in March 2013 by dotCloud. In the mean while the makers ofContinue reading “Docker Introduction”
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 