Intro When it comes to infrastructure automation, Ansible stands out as one of the most popular and powerful tools today. At the heart of Ansible’s automation capabilities are its modules, which serve as the primary building blocks for defining tasks and actions in your Ansible playbooks and roles. In this post, we’re going to dive…
As with just about all things Ansible, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)’s installation pretty much starts with prepping an inventory file. Super helpfully, the AAP installation is itself based on Ansible (which makes both hurdling any troubles encountered during install, as well as performing future upgrades, more seamless). This inventory file contains the essential…
How can you plan an effective, secure, compliant IT strategy across your varied IT stacks? This no-cost workshop, which is presented by Red Hat® award-winning Premier Partner Level Up, guides you through configuring Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform controller to connect to Windows Server instances for automating various operational tasks. Once the Ansible Automation Platform…
Are you over deploying manually config files that change from one environment to another? Done with managing seemingly-random parameters via those old-school, cryptic, regular expressions? Well then, welcome to a no-worries future where the Ansible template module is always here for you, no matter what sort of complicated logic you might need to throw at…
In the next five minutes, you’re going to become an instant expert at using the ansible.builtin.copy module (one of the first ten Ansible modules you should know) to manage static Linux files. After this, you’ll know how to transfer these files from your version control repo (so you don’t have to wonder anymore if the…
Here’s a 5-minute tutorial on the Ansible command module, which Level Up considers one of the first 10 Ansible modules you should know. We also explain how command compares and contrasts with the related shell and raw modules. What is the Ansible Command Module? As its name would suggest, the command module helps you execute…
Below might be the quickest Ansible Navigator tutorial going (for the tutorial itself, you should feel totally free to jump right to the “Steps“), that with even a tiny bit of practice should make you blazingly-fast in developing and testing your Ansible playbooks and roles on the command line, even when compared to the Ansible…
Upfront, Red Hat Insights transforms the way organizations can manage their RHEL infrastructure, and it’s available free as a part of your active RHEL subscription. With unique visibility, predictive analytics, and especially when integrated with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Red Hat Insights is a lot like having a team of Red Hat engineers…
Overview Hey everybody, it’s April and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) execution environment (EE) images are (at least kind of) on the move! The way Red Hat serves filesystem blobs for all of its container images, including the must-have Red Hat-provided Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) execution environment images, is about to undergo an important…
The Ansible file module manages files and file properties on Linux hosts. You can use it to create, delete, and modify files, as well as set permissions– it even works with symlinks. This module is also regularly used in combination with modules like Ansible’s copy and template to transfer files from a local host (or…