It's been few months I started playing with Ansible. In this tutorial, we will go over how to use vars_prompt ansible section if you may wish to prompt the user for certain input while ...
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Ansible is one of the best powerful IT automation tool out there. It directly completes with SaltStack, Docker and so on. Ansible is also an IT orchestration engine which automates configuration management, application deployment, remote infrastructure management command based simple tool.
Ansible: How to automatically monitor newly created Amazon EC2 instances using Prometheus?
Do you have any of below questions?
Use file-based service discovery to discover scrape targets
How to Automatically discover the use of multiple IPs?
Automatically monitoring EC2 ...
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Ansible: How to Refresh Host Inventory at Runtime and Add a Pause while Executing Playbook?
On Crunchify, we have published so number of tutorials on Ansible and this one is going to focus on How to Refresh Host Inventory at Runtime and Add a Pause while Executing Tasks.
Let's ...
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Ansible: How to Delete/ReCreate a File while running Ansible Playbook?
Ansible no doubt the best Infrastructure Automation tool out there which is used by top fortune 500 companies world wide.
On Crunchify, we have published a wide verity of tutorials on ...
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How to Create, Start and Configure Amazon EC2 instance using simple Ansible Script? (spawn VM remotely)
Amazon AWS is no doubt the best public cloud out there. As we discussed in previous tutorials, Ansible is a very handy tool for sysops to maintain their company infrastructure.
In this ...
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How to Install, Setup and Execute 1st Amazon AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) on Linux/Mac?
There is no doubt Amazon AWS is the biggest public cloud provider out there. I personally started playing with Amazon AWS for few of Crunchify's clients and I must say AWS is so ...
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Ansible – How to Grep (ps -few) and Kill any linux process running on Remote Host?
Ansible is pretty amazing system admin tool. We have published number of articles on Ansible in last few weeks on how to copy files on remote host, How to Execute Commands on remote Hosts, ...
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What is Ansible pre_tasks? How to Update OS, Install Python and Install JRE on Remote Host [Linux]?
What is pre_tasks in Ansible?
pre_tasks is a task which Ansible executes before executing any tasks mentioned in .yml file.
Consider this scenario. You provisioned a new instance on ...
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How to install Boto, Boto3 and set Amazon EC2 Keys? Boto: A Python interface SDK for Amazon Web Services
What is Boto?
Boto is an Amazon AWS SDK for python. Ansible internally uses Boto to connect to Amazon EC2 instances and hence you need Boto library in order to run Ansible on your ...
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