Ansible

Ansible Dynamic Inventory Plugin for OCI: where are all my hosts?

I wrote about the configuration of the Ansible Dynamic Inventory Plugin for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: configuring the dynamic inventory plugin for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

As yet another preparation for a talk I’m about to give later this year I ran…
Handling kernel upgrades with Ansible prior to an Oracle installation

As part of the process of setting up VMs in the cloud for use with the…
Passing complex data types to Ansible on the command line

Earlier this year I wrote a post about passing JSON files as –extra-vars to ansible-playbook in…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: defining –extra-vars as JSON

While I’m continuing to learn more about Ansible I noticed a nifty little thing I wanted…
Ansible Tips’n’tricks: rebooting Vagrant boxes after a kernel upgrade

Occasionally I have to reboot my Vagrant boxes after kernel updates have been installed as part…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: executing a loop conditionally

When writing playbooks, I occasionally add optional tasks. These tasks are only executed if a corresponding…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: checking if a systemd service is running

I have been working on an Ansible playbook to update Oracle’s Tracefile Analyser (TFA). If you…
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.…
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…