WinRM & Ansible – Ways of authentication and encryption

15. January 2020/in Blog/by Daniel Schumacher

With Ansible, you can configure a variety of systems in an easy way. Most companies use it to manage their Linux-based systems.

Test Ansible roles with Molecule

3. December 2019/in Blog/by ATIX-Crew

One of the advantages of the Configuration Management Tool Ansible is the easy-to-read-and-write code in YAML. This includes the possibility to test the code in an easy way.

Ansible

5. April 2019/by atixadmin

Ansible

Ansible is an SSH-based orchestration/configuration management tool based on the push principle: Desired conditions, such as configurations of operating systems, are pushed by a control node to a target node. Ansible is very lightweight, as it can be used without a special client. This makes it ideal for controlling and configuring infrastructure components, such as
Loadbalancers, Firewalls or API-controlled systems in general.
Not least because of this, Ansible has developed into a very much sought-after solution in recent years. This was certainly fuelled by the purchase by Red Hat in 2015 and the partnership of Ansible and providers of network solutions such as Cisco, BigIP, PaloAlto, etc.
A popular use case for Ansible is automated deployments launched via a CI/CD pipeline.

Features

Easy to write configurations in YAML.
Idempotenz (the final state is described, not the way there).
Low system requirements (SSH and Python>= 2.6).
OS independent (SLES, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows, …).
Can be integrated into tools such as orcharhino, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat CloudForms, or Ansible Tower.

How do we support You?

When planning a deployment infrastructure (CI/CD) using Ansible.
When It comes to implementation through Concept, PoC and Installation
By taking specific infrastructure requirements into account.
Designing and setting up Ansible based solutions with orcharhino, Satellite, CloudForms, Tower, …
Automating complete IT infrastructures such as Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS, PanOS, BigIP with Ansible.
Ansible Training