Ansible Tower – How to Backup and Restore
Ansible Tower is a wonderful product which help to implement a central hub for IT automation. Ansible Tower is basically a web console and REST API for underlying Ansible Engine but with more features...
Category: Infrastructre & Hardware
Ansible – Part 7 – Managing Variables
Ansible Variables You can use variables in ansible plays to store values like users to create, packages to install etc. By using variables, you can manage your plays with dynamic input values. See Automation...
Configure TLS Encrypted Tunnel For Remote Logs Using Syslog-ng
You might be a Sysadmin, developer, DBA or whatever, logs are like treasure boxes for anyone working in IT. And the best practice to keep logs in a central location together with local copy....
vCSA Automated Backup
vCenter 6.5 backup using cron job We all know that vCenter appliance can be backed up using its GUI window to any external servers or storage that supports FTP, SCP or HTTPS ports. However...
Mounting NFS share from Linux to Windows server
Servers used: RHEL 7.6 as NFS server & Windows 2016 as NFS Client In this scenario, we have NFS server up and running with shares mounted across different Linux clients. The requirement here is,...
Learn the basics of Linux from Red Hat [FREE]
Red Hat is offering its beginner level Linux course at no-cost; yes you heard it right – Its free ! Red Hat Enterprise Linux Technical Overview (RH024) is offering as Video Classroom and you...
SSSD AD integration on RHEL7 using Ansible
Most of the time , we have requirement to integrate Linux systems in our environment with AD for Centralized user management. It will be tedious , if we have 100+ or more Linux servers...
Ansible and Jenkins integration – Red Hat Webinar
Join this Red Hat webinar to see how to use Jenkins pipelines to deploy simple applications using Ansible Tower. Here see the quick overview of agenda. Configure and create a new Ansible Tower project....
Configure or Change Interface (access mode) VLAN on Cisco IOS
This is simple and straight forward. Below snippets are from a Cisco 3120X Blade Switch. Check the interface details on port Gi1/0/1. ams-101-sw1>enams-101-sw1#sh run | begin interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1 interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1 switchport access vlan 401...
OpenShift Cluster – How to Drain or Evacuate a Node for Maintenance
As we know OpenShift clusters are bundled with multiple compute nodes, master nodes, infra nodes etc, it’s not a big deal to manage node maintenance for OS patching kind of activities. But we need...
