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Introduction If you’re looking to brush up on the most popular Ansible information from 2022 (or just grasping at any excuse to break away from your relatives for a few minutes during the holidays), you’ve come to the right place. What follows are the top 10 blogs that have captured the most attention from Ansible.com Read more about The Top 10 Ansible Blogs of 2022[…]
The Jenkins project provides a download mirror infrastructure allowing to download Jenkins packages and plugins from a download server close to your location. How Does it Work? When a download request is emitted to either mirrors.jenkins.io or get.jenkins.io, an HTTP redirect response to a mirror download server is answered. The Jenkins infrastructure uses a database Read more about Enforced HTTPS for ‘mirrors.jenkins.io’ and consolidation of the Jenkins Mirrors[…]
A remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in the Spring Framework. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2022-22965. Spring officially reacted early in an early announcement. Spring4Shell in Jenkins Core and Plugins The Jenkins security team has confirmed that the Spring vulnerability is not affecting Jenkins Core. There is no impact because we are using Read more about Spring Framework RCE, CVE-2022-22965[…]
A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the popular “Apache Log4j 2” library. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2021-44228. Log4j in Jenkins The Jenkins security team has confirmed that Log4j is not used in Jenkins core. Jenkins plugins may be using Log4j. You can identify whether Log4j is included with any plugin by running Read more about Apache Log4j 2 vulnerability CVE-2021-44228[…]
Earlier this week the Jenkins infrastructure team identified a successful attack against our deprecated Confluence service. We responded immediately by taking the affected server offline while we investigated the potential impact. At this time we have no reason to believe that any Jenkins releases, plugins, or source code have been affected. Thus far in our Read more about Jenkins project Confluence instance attacked[…]
vCenter has a graphical user interface if you want to interact with it, but what if you manage multiple vCenter servers and want to automate audits or the maintenance of those servers? In this blog, we will see how we can retrieve details about the VMware vCenter Server directly using Ansible. The practices laid out Read more about Audit your VMware vCenter Server using Ansible[…]
VMware vCenter Server tags are labels that can be applied to objects like the system’s environment and usage, therefore it is a very useful method of asset management – also making tags a perfect fit in the Ansible world to organize systems in an Ansible inventory. Red Hat customers have regularly requested the ability to Read more about Using VMware vCenter Tags in a Red Hat Ansible Tower Dynamic Inventory[…]
At AnsibleFest 2020, we announced the extension of our security automation initiative to support endpoint protection use cases. If you have missed it, check out the recording of the talk “Automate your endpoint protection using Ansible” on the AnsibleFest page. Today, following this announcement we release the supported Ansible Content Collection for Trend Micro Deep Read more about Deep dive into Trend Micro Deep Security integration modules[…]
Managing virtual machines in an IT infrastructure is often a common task, specifically VMware virtualization technology has been around for over 20 years. VMware administrators spend a lot of their time in automating the creation, management, and removal of virtual instances that contain various operating systems. One operating system that often resides on VMware infrastructure Read more about Automating a RHEL 8 Installation Using the VMware REST Ansible Collection[…]
The Jenkins project has used Jira to track issues for many years. Jenkins core, Jenkins modules, Jenkins infrastructure, and many Jenkins plugins manage their issue reports with our Jira server. Jira helps the Jenkins project manage issues and tasks related to over 250 000 Jenkins installations. It tracks bugs, enhancement requests, tasks, and security issues. It Read more about Jira upgrade for the Jenkins project[…]