Automation
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: provision multiple machines in parallel with Vagrant and Ansible
Vagrant is a great tool that I’m regularly using for building playground environments on my laptop.…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: testing and debugging Ansible scripts using Vagrant
At last year’s UKOUG I presented about Vagrant and how to use this great piece of…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: understanding your Ansible configuration
When writing automation scripts I tend to use a local Ansible configuration file. This has certain…
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Building your own local Oracle Linux 7 Vagrant base box
I have been talking about Vagrant for a long time and use it extensively on my…
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Installing Ansible on Oracle Linux 7 for test and development use
There are a few alternative ways of installing Ansible on Linux, and the install guide for…
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Terraforming the Oracle Cloud: choosing and using an image family
For a few times now I have presented about “cloud deployments done the cloud way”, sharing…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: executing related tasks together
I have recently written an ansible playbook to apply one-off patches to an Oracle Home. While…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: assessing your runtime environment
One thing that I frequently need to do is test for a certain condition, and fail…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: even more output options
In my last post I wrote about the “debug” option to format Ansible output differently. I…
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Ansible tips’n’tricks: a different output option
When running ansible scripts, occasionally you wonder why a given task has failed. I found out…
