Category Archives: ansible

Ansible Automation Platform Workflows

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Freejack

Overview AWX Workflows let you chain tasks together and act on the outcome. This article provides instructions in how to create an AWX Workflow. Templates An AWX Workflow is a series of playbooks that are created in Templates to run … Continue reading →

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Ansible Web Executable Logging In

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Freejack

Overview This article will describe the methodology used to manage user and team access in Ansible Web Executable (AWX). Terminology Ansible Web Executable (AWX) is the upstream open source software that is used in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Prior versions … Continue reading →

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Ansible Automation Platform Projects

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Freejack

Overview This article will provide instructions in how to configure Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and how to get your Project working. Links for various fields that I don’t need in my environment is provided at the end of this article. … Continue reading →

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Ansible Automation Platform Installation

Posted on November 20, 2022 by Freejack

Overview In order to use AWX, aka the upstream product of Ansible Automation Platform, formerly Ansible Tower, we need to have a working cluster. This article provides instructions in how to install and use AWX. Installation Before doing the installation, … Continue reading →

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Python and Postgresql Index

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Freejack

Overview This is the index article that will provide links to individual articles on the conversion of one of my projects from a php/mysql(mariadb) to python and postgresql. There shouldn’t be too many however like my Kubernetes and ArgoCD series … Continue reading →

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Jinja2: Encountered Unknown Tag

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Freejack

Overview I was running an Ansible playbook and one of the templates failed with the following error: Jinja2 uses a brace + percent and a percent + brace to identify Jinja2 commands that are used when preprocessing a template. This … Continue reading →

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Ansible Patterns

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Freejack

Overview One of the cool things with Ansible are Patterns. With Patterns, you can combine entries in your inventory file. Instead of having a bunch of tags specific to each site, you can instead have a list of servers in … Continue reading →

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Ansible Tags – A Story

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Freejack

Started a new job back in October. The team is just me and another guy and the boss. And the other guy quit in December. The real good thing is it’s a small single project shop and pretty much all … Continue reading →

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Ansible Tags

Posted on March 18, 2021 by Freejack

Overview Simply enough, Ansible Tags let you run specific tasks in a play. If you have a lengthy playbook or are testing tasks within a playbook, you can assign tags to tasks that let you run a specific task vs … Continue reading →

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Ansible Handlers

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Freejack

Overview Ansible Handlers are tasks that are only performed when a calling task has successfully changed something. Updating Docker Say for example you want to try and update docker. There isn’t always an update available but if there is an … Continue reading →

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