this us usually implemented as Ansible role ansible-role-win-sql-certificate ├── defaults │ └── main.yml ├── handlers │ └── main.yml ├── tasks │ ├── get-first-certificate-thumbprint-issued-by.yml │ ├── get-first-certificate-thumbprint.yml │ └── main.yml . . . . .
When creating CI/CD pipelines for deploying IT infrastructures in onprem or in the cloud the preferred tools are: Ansible Packer Terraform Terraform is usually used for creating virtualized resources (compute, networks, storage,…). Packer is usually used for creating Windows and…
When provisioning Linux machine we often start from minimal vanilla base images or even ISO files. We need to install different software packages from different sources and versions over and over again. Sometime from built-in package repositories using the native…
Usually you optimize your Windows base images in a VMware vSphere environment by using VMware OS Optimization Tool. The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps in preparing and optimizing Windows and Windows Server systems for use with VMware Horizon. In DevOps-World…
Usually when you read about configuration automation of Windows with Ansible, most blog posts talk about connecting Ansible to Windows using WinRM. WinRM is a Windows specific Remote Management protocol. On the other hand most information about Ansible and configuration…
on non-english versions of Windows the local admin group has different spelling. If you have a task which is use win_group_membership module in Ansible to add users to local admin group you usually have to provide the correct group name.…
Installing Ubuntu/Debian updates manually for each machine individually is quite inefficient and you usually want to automate this task. The following Ansible playbook installs Ubuntu/Debian updates on a group of machines in parallel.
In cloud environments virtual hard disk have limits. No only for disk sizes but also for IO performance. Usually IO performance is dependent on disk size which means, if you need more IOPs you have to use a bigger disk.…
If you fully automate an IT infrastructure you sometimes need the individual IP addresses of each host of an host group. For example when you configure a loadbalancer or a reverse proxy and need to enter the IP addresses of…
If you provision Ubuntu VMs on Azure which have an additional data disk, you can not be sure that the data disk is The reason is that there are Azure VMs sizes which by default have a temporary storage…