Jonathan Frappier Virtxpert During the #vBrownBag DevOps series after-show from my Using Ansible to provision VM’s in vCenter, Mike Marseglia asked about options for linting Ansible playbooks. Since I didn’t know, I thought it would be worthwhile to look into it. There is an Ansible-Lint repo on GitHub, reading through […]
Jonathan Frappier Virtxpert I wanted to share some of the example Ansible playbooks used during last Wednesday’s US #vBrownBag. During the show I went over examples of how you can use Ansible to create, clone, and update virtual machines in vCenter without the need for other provisioning tools. Based on […]
Jonathan Frappier Virtxpert During the #vDM30in30 challenge I started playing with Ansible to get to know it a bit better. One of the things I was curious about is the ability for Ansible to provision virtual machines directly to vCenter. After all if I am using Ansible to manage the […]
Jonathan Frappier Virtxpert I started my Ansible series really with the intention of getting to know Git/GitHub a bit better but Ansible was so awesome I couldn’t put it down. Now that I have built a couple of example playbooks its time to “commit” those into GitHub. For starters, we […]
Jonathan Frappier Virtxpert With Ansible installed, and a basic inventory file created we can now move beyond ad-hoc tasks (which by the way is still a great use case for Ansible) and take advantage of Playbooks. Playbooks are a set of commands organized as required to perform complicated tasks. Maybe […]