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Ansible Fest 2021 — my impression — event wrap up 🍌🍿

My impression of the Ansible Fest 2021 event: the main event of Ansible lovers worldwide. The main announcement was Ansible Automation Platform 2.0 using Execution Environment technology and the upcoming Ansible Mesh communication protocol and so much more.

Hello, everyone from Luca Berton in the Ansible Pilot channel.

Why am I holding a banana? Because it was the Mascotte of Ansible Fest 2021.

Today I would like to share with you my impression after Ansible Fest 2021, the main event of Ansible lovers worldwide.

It was…

Stop and disable services on boot on Linux remote hosts — Ansible module service_facts, service

How to list the available Linux services and automate the stop and disable service on boot process with Ansible playbook. Included code and demo with “chronyd.service” NTP server on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.

How to stop and disable services on boot on Linux remote hosts with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible enable services on boot on remote hosts

ansible.builtin.service_facts
Return service state information as fact data
ansible.builtin.service
Manage services

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2 days ago

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Start and enable services on boot Linux on remote hosts — Ansible module service_facts , service

How to list the available Linux services and automate the start and enable service on boot process with Ansible playbook. Included code and demo with `chronyd.service` NTP server on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.

How to enable services on boot on remote hosts with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible enable services on boot on remote hosts

ansible.builtin.service_facts
Return service state information as fact data
ansible.builtin.service
Manage services

Today we’re talking…

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3 days ago

NFS Server — Export an NFS Share in RedHat-like systems — Ansible modules yum, file, lineinfile, command, firewalld, service

How to automate the configuration of an NFS Server with Ansible in six tasks: install packages, create the NFS share directory, add share in the config, export shares, restart NFS service and enable on boot, and open firewall service ports on boot in a RedHat-like Linux target system: RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, CentOS Stream, Fedora, ClearOS, Oracle Linux, EuroLinux, Fermi Linux, EulerOS, ROSA Linux, Springdale Linux, Asianux.

How to export NFS Share in RedHat-like Linux systems with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Export an NFS Share in RedHat-like systems

install packages => ansible.builtin.yum
create directory => ansible.builtin.file
share in config => ansible.builtin.lineinfile
export…

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5 days ago

Register a system with Red Hat Subscription-Manager — Ansible module redhat_subscription

How to automate the registration of a machine RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 to subscription-manager using the access.redhat.com credential, assign a pool of entitlement, and install some packages.

How to register a system with Red Hat Subscription-Manager with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible register a system with Red Hat Subscription-Manager

community.general.redhat_subscription
Manage registration and subscriptions to RHSM using the subscription-manager command

Today we’re talking…

Mount an NFS share in Linux — Ansible module mount

How to mount an NFS share in Linux. The Ansible Playbook code is going to check the required packages, create the mount-point, and set up the NFS network shared folder using NFS4 protocol on the Linux target machine. Demo and live coding included for RedHat-like and Debian-like systems.

How to mount an NFS share in Linux with Ansible?

I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible mounts an NFS Share in Linux

ansible.posix.mount
Control active and configured mount points

Today we’re talking about the Ansible module mount.

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Loop in file template — Ansible module template — Generate hosts file

How to use for loop in Ansible module template to generate/etc/myhosts file with IP address, hostname, and short name from Ansible inventory. Ansible Playbook, Jinja2 template, and with Magic Variables included.

How to use a loop in a file template to the target host with Ansible?

This is extremely useful for service configuration files, placeholder web pages, reports, and so much more use cases.

I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton…

Apply a file template — Ansible module template — HTML placeholder

How to create and use templates in Ansible Playbooks. An included example is how to deploy an HTML placeholder using the Jinga2 template in your Nginx webserver.

How to apply a file template to the target host with Ansible?

This is extremely useful for service configuration files, placeholder web pages, reports, and so much more use cases.

I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to…

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Nov 22

How to install Ansible in Rocky Linux 8

How to install and maintain up-to-date Ansible inside Rocky Linux 8 using the EPEL repository.

How to install Ansible in Rocky Linux version 8.
Today we’re going to talk about the easier way to install and maintain Ansible inside Rocky Linux 8 using the EPEL repository.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

How to install Ansible in Rocky Linux 8

use Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)…

My impression of the Ansible Fest 2021 event: the main event of Ansible lovers worldwide. The main announcement was Ansible Automation Platform 2.0 using Execution Environment technology and the upcoming Ansible Mesh communication protocol and so much more.

How to list the available Linux services and automate the stop and disable service on boot process with Ansible playbook. Included code and demo with “chronyd.service” NTP server on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.

Ansible enable services on boot on remote hosts

How to list the available Linux services and automate the start and enable service on boot process with Ansible playbook. Included code and demo with chronyd.service NTP server on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.

Ansible enable services on boot on remote hosts

Export an NFS Share in RedHat-like systems

How to automate the registration of a machine RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 to subscription-manager using the access.redhat.com credential, assign a pool of entitlement, and install some packages.

Ansible register a system with Red Hat Subscription-Manager

How to mount an NFS share in Linux. The Ansible Playbook code is going to check the required packages, create the mount-point, and set up the NFS network shared folder using NFS4 protocol on the Linux target machine. Demo and live coding included for RedHat-like and Debian-like systems.

Ansible mounts an NFS Share in Linux

How to use for loop in Ansible module template to generate/etc/myhosts file with IP address, hostname, and short name from Ansible inventory. Ansible Playbook, Jinja2 template, and with Magic Variables included.

How to create and use templates in Ansible Playbooks. An included example is how to deploy an HTML placeholder using the Jinga2 template in your Nginx webserver.

How to install and maintain up-to-date Ansible inside Rocky Linux 8 using the EPEL repository.

How to install Ansible in Rocky Linux 8

Ansible Pilot

How to list the available Linux services and automate the start and enable service on boot process with Ansible playbook. Included code and demo with `chronyd.service` NTP server on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.