How to install Ansible on Ubuntu Server 18.04 Your email has been sent Jack Wallen walks you through the steps for installing Ansible and connecting a node. Ansible ...

This how-to shows how to use free Ansible software to automate configuration of Cisco routers and links to other Ansible modules that apply to other vendors' gear and support other functionality ...

I've written about and trained folks on various DevOps tools through the years, and although they're awesome, it's obvious that most of them are designed from the mind of a developer. There's nothing ...

Eventually, I'll have Ansible playbooks for every aspect of my home lab and home network, including Proxmox hosts, their contents, and any other servers I have set up. For now, I'll be focusing on the ...

Software developers are often called upon to implement the logic required by IaC platforms, such as Terraform and Ansible. But to properly write the YAML, JSON or DSL file that will spin up Docker ...

Finally, an automation framework that thinks like a sysadmin. Ansible, you're hired. In my last article, I described how to configure your server and clients so you could connect to each client from ...

Ansible and Jenkins offer features that support a DevOps approach to delivering quality software, but the products are geared toward different use cases. See how the DevOps tools' features compare.

If there were an award for “most improved IT orchestration and configuration management tool,” Red Hat’s Ansible would be a top contender. Since its initial development by Michael DeHaan in 2012, it ...

Ansible is just the automation engine on its own, so it needs instructions detailing all the processes I wish to automate. Playbooks are the YAML configs that contain this code, and are responsible ...

The cloud-based version of the configuration manager, playbook.cloud, requires no setup, no standing up of server nodes, and is billed by the minute. It will later be integrated into Refactr’s CSAP ...