Ansible Playbook from Github Action
I’ve recently started a side project with Ansible and I wanted to automatise the Ansible playbook deployment with Github Action. Here is a tiny tutorial on how to use Github actions to run ansible playbooks to deploy stuff on Digital Ocean Droplets. SSH Key Before creating digital ocean droplets, you need to create a private…
Ansible AWX in Kubernetes
AWX Since one year now, Red Hat open sourced Tower as AWX, the Web UI to deploy with Ansible. Awx allow you to manage all your Ansible projects, with inventories, encrypted credentials, playbooks, etc, in a great Web UI. For example, you can create in AWX multiple credentials which are encrypted into Awx database to…
How to migrate from ansible vault to hashicorp vault
Ansible Vault Today, all our project passwords are stored in ansible vault files, on file per environnement, stored in a « passwords » directory They are loaded at the beginning of the main playbook : — – hosts: all:!localhost any_errors_fatal: true gather_facts: true pre_tasks: – include_vars: password/password_{{ env }}.yml connection: local no_log: True tags: – password -…
Ansible Mitogen
Today I discovered a new ansible strategy module that increase ansible performance a lot : Ansible Mitogen. Mitogen is a python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs. You can read a great article about this here : https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2018-03-06-quadrupling-ansible-performance-with-mitogen.html After some benchmark, I confirm : Mitogen is very fast ! I’ve divised my deployment by 2…
Ansible 2.5 grafana modules
At work, we needed to automatize grafana installation and grafana provisionning (datasources, plugins and dashboards). So I’ve created 3 new ansible modules that will be released with the next version of ansible 2.5 The first module is grafana_datasource. If you have to create a lot of different datsources for your grafana instance in multiples…