Modernize IBM Z with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

 September 21, 2023 -  Ehningen, DE

How does Ansible Automation help in automating mainframe operations?

 September 19, 2023 -  Ehningen, DE

Use per-host SSH key pairs on AWX and Ansible Automation Controller

 September 18, 2023

One of the aspects that I have always loved about Ansible is that it integrates very nicely with the rest of the system where it is running. For example, you can easily configure all the SSH configurations directly by changing the ~/.ssh/config file. I’ve seen multiple cases where the SSH configuration file needs to be tweaked. A case that comes up occasionally is an environment configured in a way that requires Ansible to use a different SSH key for each machine it manages.

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform

 August 31, 2023

A few weeks ago, I passed the Red Hat EX467 exam, which allowed me to become Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform. As of today, this is the newest Red Hat exam on Ansible. You can notice this from the version of Ansible Automated Platform that this exam uses: 2.2. An aspect that is already clear by looking at the objective is that this exam is completely complementary to the EX294 exam.

Make your environment sane with Ansible Automation

 June 16, 2023 -  Brno, CZ

Manage Power machines with Ansible

 June 14, 2023 -  Prague, CZ

Red Hat EX374 exam

 November 16, 2022

Yesterday I did the Red Hat EX374 exam, which allows becoming Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform. This exam is my sixth Ansible exam/certification, so the question is always, how is this similar or different from the others? This exam is one of the furthest ones from the others since it focuses on Ansible Automation Platform 2 instead of Ansible Core or Ansible Tower. This change was welcomed since AAP has many more moving parts and features compared to previous products.

Modernize mainframes operations and workloads with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Platform

 November 3, 2022 -  Whittlebury, UK

Modernize IBM zSystems with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

 June 28, 2022 -  Böblingen, DE

Obtain an Ansible Job output from Ansible Tower API

 April 27, 2022

A couple of years back, I wrote a blogpost on obtaining the previous Job ID in Ansible Tower workflow. Now, let’s go further and create another module to obtain the output of such a job. Before moving further, I want to specify that I talk about Ansible Tower since this is the most known name for this software, but I could also be talking about AWX or Ansible Controller since those are the same codebase.