ansible

In this blog post we will look at how we can easily enrich an existing dynamic inventory using the constructed inventory plugin. But, before we do that, let’s take a step back. Ansible is simple automation tool that allows users to achieve common use cases such as configuration management, provisioning and complex multi-tier orchestration. Part of what makes Ansible so simple, is the fact that it is agentless. One doesn’t need to deploy agents or any heavyweight control software to get up and running with Ansible automation. [Read More]

In this post we will look at how we can call Ansible Tower from ServiceNow as part of a ServiceNow Catalog Request. For this example, I have a playbook in Ansible Tower that will manage the membership of a node within an F5 loadbalancer pool. The playbook expects the user to input the name of the node that should be managed and the state it should be in - either enabled or forced_offline. [Read More]

Ansible Tower is a centralised platform for running and controlling your Ansible automation. It provides a number of key features for running Ansible in the enterprise. Role-Based Access Control Inventory Management Credential Management Auditing & Logging Clustering & Scale-Out Job slicing is a new scale-out feature that was introduced in Ansible Tower 3.4 which allows us to run jobs that are distributed across our Ansible Tower cluster. Before we look at job slicing let’s quickly look at clustering and job distribution within a cluster. [Read More]