Ansible

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…
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…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: assessing your runtime environment

One thing that I frequently need to do is test for a certain condition, and fail…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: even more output options

In my last post I wrote about the “debug” option to format Ansible output differently. I…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: a different output option

When running ansible scripts, occasionally you wonder why a given task has failed. I found out…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: a new series

In the past few months I have spent considerable amounts of time working on new technology…