Wanting to get started with Ansible? Already have a Centos machine up and running or want to use a Centos machine? This post will provide a guided installation to get you up and running in no time. Lets get started In 3 steps we will have Ansible installed on your Centos 8 machine. Step 1 […]
Non-technical users without password lifetime Ever got this as a security check remark? This is how I solve that in the ansible task: Run you code again. In the AMS8 Lab I use AWX, which I love. You can rerun, rerun until your done just from within the GUI. If you now go back to […]
While deploying new VM’s is easy with Ansible, I kept on struggling with setting the hostname. There is Ansible documentation to use vmware_vm_shell module to set the hostname. The following is stated on their help page. Whatever I tried, I could not manage to get it working. It dit not error but just didn’t work. […]
Working with Ansible is cool. To be able to work quickly with Ansible on AWS it can be handy to use a dynamic inventory. This has some real benefits: You don’t need to edit the inventory by hand No more typo’s or ip mismatches Automated is always better 😉 To do this you create an […]