Modernize mainframes operations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

 October 31, 2023 -  Whittlebury, UK

Automatizzare l'IT con Ansible

 October 28, 2023 -  Milano, IT

Unleash the Power of Ansible with Lightspeed!

 October 19, 2023 -  Karlova Ves, SK

Practical Ansible - Second Edition

 Published on September 29, 2023
 Authored by James Freeman, Fabio Alessandro Locati, Daniel Oh
 Published by Packt Publishing Limited

Ansible empowers you to automate a myriad of tasks, including software provisioning, configuration management, infrastructure deployment, and application rollouts. It can be used as a deployment tool as well as an orchestration tool. While Ansible provides simple yet powerful features to automate multi-layer environments using agentless communication, it can also solve other critical IT challenges, such as ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) with zero downtime.

In this book, you’ll work with the latest release of Ansible and learn how to solve complex issues quickly with the help of task-oriented scenarios. You’ll start by installing and configuring Ansible on Linux and macOS to automate monotonous and repetitive IT tasks and learn concepts such as playbooks, inventories, and roles. As you progress, you’ll gain insight into the YAML syntax and learn how to port between Ansible versions. Additionally, you’ll understand how Ansible enables you to orchestrate multi-layer environments such as networks, containers, and the cloud.

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. I’m aware that this is not an ideal setup since it is not increasing the security as much as the person who came up with such a rule was expecting. Still, it is a requirement that some companies have for various historical reasons and, usually, it is impossible or impractical to challenge. However, the same process applies to any other SSH connection tweaking that can be performed in the SSH configuration file, such as proxies, ciphers, host checks, etc.

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. In fact, the EX294 focuses on how to write Ansible code. In contrast, the EX467 focuses on leveraging the Ansible Automation Platform to ensure that Ansible automation can be effectively used in enterprise environments.

Make your environment sane with Ansible Automation

 June 16, 2023 -  Brno, CZ

Manage Power machines with Ansible

 June 14, 2023 -  Prague, CZ