I’ve recently been working with Ansible as a configuration management solution. Workloads deployed from vRealize Automation to the private cloud are handed off to Ansible Tower, whereas existing infrastructure is managed in the downstream product – AWX. This is mainly Continue reading
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Enabling HashiCorp Vault Lookups in Ansible AWX – Part 2
Earlier in the year, I wrote about how to create a Python virtual environment on Ansible AWX to run the HashiCorp lookup module.
The last task is to create the credentials to support the Vault lookup, followed by configuring the necessary variables in the inventory.
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Enabling HashiCorp Vault Lookups in Ansible AWX
Recently I’ve decided to change how I retrieve privilege escalation credentials for production hosts added to Ansible AWX. When I first started out I only had a few machines, so the root/Administrator credential was defined on each host. Whilst this approach is fine for a limited amount Continue reading
Adding Internal CA SSL chains to Ansible AWX
I’m currently in the process of integrating my HobbitCloud machines into Ansible AWX. After creating an inventory, establishing my groups and adding my hosts, I began to create an SCM-based project that connects to my internal GitLab server. Unfortunately, I ran straight into an error. Continue reading
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