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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

11 months

Using Ansible? 5 Things you need to know: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

BREAKING: @Ansible provider for Terraform released! Here’s what’s new for Terraform users leveraging Ansible: 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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BREAKING: @Ansible provider for Terraform released! Here’s what’s new for Terraform users leveraging Ansible: 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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BREAKING: @Ansible provider for Terraform released! Here’s what’s new for Terraform users leveraging Ansible: 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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10 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Use the community.general.yaml callback plugin to beautify your Ansible playbook output. Makes debugging SO much easier. Just place this in your ansible.cfg.

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Using Ansible? Use these 5 built-in modules to make your automation life easier:🧵

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Speed up your playbook's completion time with async & poll actions. - Skip the wait for lenghty tasks - Execute add'l tasks concurrently - Circle back to assess results when rdy

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

Ansible Automation Platform... You're using it wrong. 🧵 5 Things you didn't know your Ansible Automation Platform can do: 👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: If you’re running an Ansible playbook over and over… Boost your playbook speed with fact caching. It’s going to speed up all your re-runs and you don’t need to waste time regathering facts especially when they don’t change much. Add in ansible.cfg

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Roger Lopez

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10 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Use Blocks to group tasks and apply shared properties like become. Especially helpful when say you have a set of tasks that you want to logically group for a particular OS family. Example 👇👇👇👇👇👇

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Enhance your playbooks' reliability with block, rescue, and always. - Group tasks under block - Manage errors with rescue - Guarantee tasks execute with always

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10 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Sometimes the playbook execution breaks. Take advantage of these Ansible options when running your playbooks. -vvv --step --check --diff --start-at-task

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Roger Lopez

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10 months

JUST IN: Event-Driven @Ansible for Kubernetes! 5 ways Event-Driven Ansible is going to change how you automate: 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

BREAKING: Containerized Ansible Automation Platform now available! Here’s what’s new for Ansible users leveraging AAP: 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

New to Ansible? Let’s write your first playbook. Here’s how to install and run an Apache web server in 60 seconds! 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Simplify your loop outputs. When looping over complex data structures don’t drown in excess data. Use loop_control to cherry-pick exactly what you want to see. Not only will it make reading your output MUCH easier, it’ll speed up playbook performance!

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

JUST IN: Event-Driven @Ansible for Kubernetes! 5 ways Event-Driven Ansible is going to change how you automate: 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible Task Cheat Sheet Top 10 common tasks in Ansible: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

10 habits of great @Ansible users: 🧵 ( #2 is going to leave you 😲) 👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Streamline your playbooks and use: - ‘import_tasks’ for fixed structures - ‘include_tasks’ for on-the-fly decisions

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Use the community.general.yaml callback plugin to beautify your Ansible playbook output. Makes debugging SO much easier. Just place this in your ansible.cfg.

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Roger Lopez

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7 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Assert Your Assumptions! Before deploying changes, use ansible.builtin.assert to verify that your environment meets your prerequisites. Here I’m using the assert module to ensure that my hosts are part of the RH family before I continue.

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

Ansible Automation Platform... You're using it wrong. 🧵 5 Things you didn't know your Ansible Automation Platform can do:

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Roger Lopez

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7 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Embrace Roles Break down your playbook tasks into roles. Roles enable you to easily reuse code and manage dependencies across your playbooks, making them more maintainable.

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 launched last week. 5 things everyone should know: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

2 years

This blog on Terraform + Ansible is 🔥 Take Terraform and combine it with the power of @ansible , you get a truly efficient workflow. That demo at the bottom @NunoMart11 is 🤩

Terraforming Clouds with Ansible

Many organizations use Terraform for quick infrastructure provisioning every day, but if we combine it with the power of Ansible, we can see that it builds into an efficient workflow.

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Top 10 most popular Ansible Collections within Ansible Galaxy. #7 is a game changer:🧵

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Use ‘no_log: true’ to shield sensitive details. Allows you to: - Share playbook output w/o revealing secrets - Keep centralized logs clean of sensitive details

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Want to write effective Ansible playbooks? Consistency is key. Here’s how to always write consistent playbooks:🧵

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Ensure dependencies are ready with 'wait_for' - Wait for specific conditions, e.g. like ports open - Avoid blind sleeps - Great for orchestrating multi-step deployments/installs

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Roger Lopez

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10 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Leverage dynamic variables to create flexible configurations. Example of turning a feature on or off based on if it’s in prod or dev.

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Roger Lopez

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7 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Use 'gather_facts: no' when system facts aren’t needed. ✅ Saves time by skipping unnecessary data collection. ✅ Ideal for tasks where host-specific facts aren’t essential.

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible just got smarter with event-driven automation. Here are FIVE different ways to make your IT work: * faster * simpler * more effective 🧵A thread

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Use 'delegate_to' to control where a task runs. Perfect way to execute a task on a different host than the current one in play. Ex: checking connectivity of a URL from the localhost's perspective

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Boost your playbook's performance by managing the number of forks. Adjust the forks value in your ansible.cfg - More forks allows you to execute more tasks on multiple hosts in parallel - Tune carefully considering the resources on your control node

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Leverage 'any_errors_fatal: true' for mission critical scenarios. -Ideal when tasks have strict dependencies -Ideal when a task MUST succeed before continuing -Stops executing play on all hosts upon failure Ex: Upgrade kicks off ONLY if all LBs are disabled.

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Haven’t upgraded to @Ansible Automation Platform 2.3? 5 reasons why you’ll want to upgrade today! 🧵 👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible Automation Platform…. You’re using it wrong. 🚫 4 hidden gems 💎 you never knew your Ansible Automation Platform could do: 🧵//THREAD// 🧵 👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

10 habits of great Ansible users: ( #2 will leave you 😮 ) //THREAD//

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

I spent over 💯 hours learning to optimize @ansible Automation Platform on Red Hat @openshift so you don’t have to. 5 things every solutions architect should know: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: When interacting with rate-limiting APIs, throttle your tasks to avoid hitting those limits.

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Prevent changes from hitting all hosts at once using ‘serial’. ✅ Essential for restarts/updates that can’t happen at once ✅ Reduces risk of service outages ✅ Allows changes in controlled batches Example of running commands in batches of 3.

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

Why I love Ansible - Agentless - Idempotent - Interacts with APIs - Multi Platform support - Cloud integrations - Community - YAML

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

Mastering Ansible Network Automation Implementing 5 use cases with examples: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

JUST IN: Event-Driven @Ansible for Kubernetes! 5 ways Event-Driven Ansible is going to change how you automate: 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible PRO TIP: When you work with REST APIs use the ‘register’ keyword to store API response data. This allows you to: * Adapt automation based on responses * Pass data between API calls * Manage errors and customize alerts

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Before you apply changes, do a dry run. Allows: - Previewing changes w/o executing them. - Validating tasks.

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Roger Lopez

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7 months

The key to effective Ansible playbooks — consistency. Here’s how to write consistent playbooks: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible Roles ✅ Flexible ✅ Reusable ✅ Shareable How to use roles to make your automation life easier:🧵

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Roger Lopez

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6 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Use filters for advanced data handling in your tasks. ✅ json_query - Ideal for sifting through complex JSON data. ✅ regex_replace - Transform string formats effortlessly. ✅ map - Transform lists of data efficiently.

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Why @Ansible ? 1. Agentless 2. YAML based 3. Server orchestration 4. Runs on multi-platforms 5. Easy config management

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

New to Ansible? How to get started. 1. Install Ansible 2. Create an inventory file 3. Write a Playbook 4. Run the Playbook

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

⭐️Top 5 things you need to know about Ansible Builder 3.0: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

If you’re not using @Ansible Navigator, you’re falling behind. 4 ways it’s going to make you more productive: 🧵 👇

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

If you know how to use Ansible, you could be 2x more productive. Here’s how: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

Ansible Lightspeed - What it is - How it works - How to enable it //THREAD//

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

8 months

Love the use of @Ansible & ChatGPT in this scenario 1. Windows event fires 2. EDA captures it 3. Ansible job queries ChatGPT w/ event details 4. ChatGPT deciphers & suggests fixes 5. Ansible creates a ServiceNow ticket w/ the issue & suggested solutions

Windows and Event-Driven Ansible

In this demo we look at using Windows Active Directory events and Event-Driven Ansible to create ServiceNow tickets. In addition to this, we introduce a meth...

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

BREAKING: IBM introduces watsonx! What is watsonx? IBM’s next gen AI and data platform. Here’s what it means for Ansible developers like you: 🧵 #Think2023

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Roger Lopez

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6 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Utilize ansible-galaxy to effortlessly integrate community roles into your playbooks.

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

⭐️ It’s all about EDA

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

9 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Don't limit yourself to a static inventory. Ansible can pull in dynamic inventories from your cloud providers. Giving you the ability to easily automate your cloud environments.

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

Why you’ll want to upgrade to @Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 //THREAD//

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

11 months

Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 introduced a new UI. - Cleaner look - Faster response time - Familiar theme, easy navigation Here’s how to enable it: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

🌟 Ansible: Your IT Swiss Army Knife 🌟 ✅ Deploy apps ✅ Server provisioning ✅ Orchestrate complex tasks ✅ Configuration management ✅ Network config & optimization ✅ Container management ✅ Cloud integrations ✅ CI/CD support ✅ Security

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

Yes - Ansible Automation Platform is great for automating. But don’t overlook it’s abilities to support collaboration & streamline workflows.

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

New to Ansible? Let’s write your first playbook. Install & run an Apache web server in under 60 seconds! 👇👇👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible PRO TIP: Use the assert module to make certain prerequisite conditions are met. This helps you: - prevent unexpected errors🚫 - boost reliability 🔼 Plus, early playbook failures makes for easier debugging.

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

5 essential @Ansible tricks you need to know: 🧵 #5 has saved me so many times. 👇👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible is shifting gears and adopting content driven updates! Here's what it means for those using Ansible Automation Platform: 🧵 👇👇 👇

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

5 Reasons You Should Already Running Ansible Automation Platform 2 ( #4 will leave your 🤯) 👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

5 things you didn't know about Ansible: 🧵 #4 is a must know!

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Roger Lopez

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6 months

5 Ways You Can Leverage Ansible: 🧵 👇👇👇

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

11 months

A lot has happened this week around Ansible. Here is a quick 2 minute recap of the top 5 things that happened in Ansible this week: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Want to learn more? Go check out the blog by @NunoMart11 👇👇👇👇👇

Providing Terraform with that Ansible Magic

We are adding more value to infrastructure as code with an addition to the Ansible Certified Content Collection: The Ansible provider for Terraform.

www.ansible.com

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

3 Ansible tips that change how you @ansible Easy to learn Easy to apply Countless hours saved #2 is my favorite! //THREAD// 🧵 🧵

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

Sometimes the playbook execution breaks. Take advantage of these Ansible options when running your playbooks. -vvvv -- step -- check -- diff -- start-at-task

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible PRO TIP: Make your Ansible playbooks modular and reusable by using roles. It’s going to make your playbooks: - easier to read - easier to share - easier to maintain

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible Collections are a must if you: -value reusability - value code organization - value collaborating with teams Here's super simple guide to using them.

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Last week at Red Hat Summit, Ansible Lightspeed was announced -- an AI built for IT automation Here's a breakdown of: - What it is - What it isn't - How you should use it - How to get started with it //THREAD 🧵// #RHSummit

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Roger Lopez

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8 months

🎥 Created a 2 min step-by-step video on how to deploy @Ansible Automation Platform on @openshift 🔑 Takeaways: - Operators make the install a breeze - Access to all AAP components (controller, automation hub, Event Driven Ansible) - Up in minutes not hours

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

I love this video that @keithtenzer put together around @Ansible Automation Platform You may: -Know what Ansible is -Know how to use Ansible -Know about automation controller But do you know what a platform is around Ansible? A must watch! 👇👇👇

Ansible Automation Platform (AAP ) Demo

In this demonstration I cover the value of why an Automation Platform instead of just Automation? Step by step we go through a workflow showing the capabilit...

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Roger Lopez

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9 months

Built a demo that moves an application between @openshift clusters using ACM and @Ansible — automatically. - Triggered by a Prometheus alert - Directed by an EDA rulebook - Assisted by ACM Submariner & AAP automation controller Check it out!!

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Roger Lopez

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11 months

If you understand these components of a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan with Ansible, you’re ahead of 99% of people: - Disaster Event Detection - Primary Site Shutdown - Failover Procedure - Return to Normal Operations Read on for how Ansible can help: 🧵 👇

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Roger Lopez

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2 years

#AnsibleFest may be over but the fun don’t stop here! Want to learn the basics of Event-Driven Ansible? Maybe how to scale with automation mesh? Or you just want to run your first Ansible playbook. There’s an ON DEMAND FREE lab waiting for you @

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible PRO TIP: Apply tags to tasks within your playbook. This allows you to execute only a subset of tasks when running a playbook. Especially great when you’re debugging.

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

3 @Ansible skills 3 minutes to learn 3 hours saved this week⏳

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

Ansible PRO TIP: Make handling complicated objects easier with the ansible.utils collection. Use the lookup plugin to: - Change an object into a simple list of paths & values - Paths are dot delimited (making them easier to read & use)

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

10 months

When you start using Event Driven Ansible

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Roger Lopez

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10 months

Ansible PRO TIP: Beyond the basic Jinja2 templating, use filters to transform data inside a template expression. Ex: {{ a_var | default('default_value') }} Give a default value or even use ‘omit’ as your value to make a var optional. More filters 👇

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

11 months

Last week there was an Ansible Community Meetup - Better Together: Exploring Ansible & Terraform And at the roughly 33 min mark there’s a sweet demo thanks to @IPvSean 👇👇👇👇👇

Ansible Community Meetup - Better Together: Exploring Ansible and...

Join us for an exciting community Ansible meetup event where we will explore the powerful combination of Ansible and Terraform and how they can work harmonio...

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

5 Ansible Collections to get work done quickly: 🧵

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

2 years

Have you tried the latest @ansible collection yet? Features you’ll find in the latest release 🧵

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

11 months

Asynchronous Actions & Polling: Use the async and poll parameters to run tasks asynchronously. This starts the sleep 30 cmd, then continues with the next task, then checks back every 10 secs to see if the cmd is done. If not done after 40 secs, Ansible fails the task.

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

1 year

Haven’t upgraded to Ansible Automation Platform 2.3? Here are the top 5 most asked questions on how to migrate:🧵

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

11 months

Want to learn more? Go check out the blog by @NunoMart11 👇👇👇👇👇

Providing Terraform with that Ansible Magic

We are adding more value to infrastructure as code with an addition to the Ansible Certified Content Collection: The Ansible provider for Terraform.

www.ansible.com

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Roger Lopez

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1 year

My Roadmap to Success w/ @Ansible 1. Setup automation controller 2. Organize my inventories 3. Create reusable roles: (a) Server provisioning (b) Network configuration (c) App deployment 3. CI/CD pipelines to deploy workflows 4. Integratation testing & validation

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Roger Lopez

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9 months

🚨If business continuity matters to you, this one’s for you. 📖 Spent last week diving into Event Driven @Ansible , ACM & AAP. 🛠 Built a demo that moves an application between @openshift clusters— automatically. - Triggered by a Prometheus alert - Directed by an EDA

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Roger Lopez

@Lopez

1 year

If you found this helpful please retweet the below! ❤️

Roger Lopez

@Lopez

1 year

BREAKING: @Ansible provider for Terraform released! Here’s what’s new for Terraform users leveraging Ansible: 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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Imagine rapid Linux upgrades for remote edge devices 🌐, no IT staff needed! Now envision: - Upgrading at scale✨ - Faster vulnerability patching🚀 💥 Meet Ansible validated content's infra.osbuild Collection for Edge deployments! Let’s take a closer look. 🧵 👇👇👇👇

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