Using certain options already improved speed for ansible. Gathering facts is still something that can consume some extra time. In order to improve this on a lot of machines if you use them often is to cache the facts. On… Continue Reading
So you have some nice roles and a great playbook. Your getting bigger (hence my post, same story) and you want to split up certain parts into say playbooks for “db”, “web”, “app” and such. So you create a folder… Continue Reading
Not much is to be said about “gather_facts”, it says don’t gather facts. But what does this exactly mean? When i was looking it up i just thought it might increase speed, which it does! Only when certain “facts” are… Continue Reading
Overall practice would suggest that you need to install tower on your “intranet”, while this might be a good solution to some i think that if tower and Ansible do such a good job with working on ‘cloud’ provisioning then… Continue Reading
So i am playing around with ansible these days. Only to find out that every server needs some manual work in order to work with ansible. So why not “ansible” that too? I’ve created a simple function in bash that… Continue Reading