Webinar: “How to Make Your Mark: Ansible Community Contributions”

On Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 9:30 AM EST, we will be hosting a webinar, How to Make Your Mark: Ansible Community Contributions. This webinar is tailored for everyone in the Ansible community. Whether you’re a brand new member of the Ansible community or a full-fledged Red Hat Ansible Tower customer, contributing to the Ansible projects Read more about Webinar: “How to Make Your Mark: Ansible Community Contributions”[…]

AnsibleFest is heading to Atlanta!

We are excited to announce the dates and location for AnsibleFest 2019. We’ve selected a location that not only provides the ease of use (or access in this case) that users expect from all things Ansible, but also the enjoyment folks expect after automating their way through complex problems. ATLANTA! Home of the Braves (MLB), Read more about AnsibleFest is heading to Atlanta![…]

Integrating Ansible and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta

Red Hat is proud to announce that Ansible supports managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta hosts. Before you can manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta nodes with Ansible 2.7, though, you need to set the appropriate python interpreter. Ansible allows you to manage a huge range of hosts and devices, from legacy systems Read more about Integrating Ansible and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta[…]

Ansible and Infoblox: Roles Deep Dive

As Sean Cavanaugh mentioned in his earlier Infoblox blog post, the release of Ansible 2.5 introduced a lookup plugin, a dynamic inventory script, and five modules that allow for Infoblox automation. A combination of these modules and lookups in a role provides a powerful DNS automation framework. Summary Today we are going to demonstrate how Read more about Ansible and Infoblox: Roles Deep Dive[…]

Reboot Plugin for Linux in Ansible 2.7

Rebooting Linux systems with Ansible has always been possible, but was often tricky and error-prone. In Ansible 2.7, I am happy to say that rebooting Linux hosts with Ansible is now easier and can be done with a single task using the newly minted reboot plugin. Some History The win_reboot module was written by Matt Davis Read more about Reboot Plugin for Linux in Ansible 2.7[…]

Large Scale Deployments Using Ansible

This has been the Ansible messaging since the journey began. As time has gone on, the definition of simple we’re talking about may have been misunderstood… The Ansible simplicity is about being easy to understand, learn and share. It’s about people. The often peddled notion that “Ansible doesn’t scale past 500 hosts” is shadowed by Read more about Large Scale Deployments Using Ansible[…]