If you are a ServiceNow user you can now go to https://github.com/ServiceNowITOM/ansible-sn-inventory use the dynamic inventory available to sync CI items from Service Now to ansible tower. This tutorial will show what you need to do to make this happen on ansible tower 3.2.1. A big thanks to Reuben Stump, Alex Mittell for writing this integration….
Out of the box Ansible Tower 3.1.2 does not come with the Red Hat Virtualization 4.0 provider. You will find the instructions here to get it working: Step 1: SSH into the ansible tower [dobby@dobby ~]$ ssh root@tower.local.domb.com Step 2: Install ovirt-engine-sdk-python [root@towerldo ~]# yum install ovirt-engine-sdk-python Step 3: cd into /opt/rh and get the…
Unfortunately the latest version of Ansible Tower 3.2.1 is not able to connect to CloudForms due to a bug in the inventory file cloudforms.py If you need a fix for it until it is fixed downstream in the next tower release you can use mine (not supported of course) The PR is here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31760 fix…
In the last few month I got quite a few requests on deploying RHV as a single hyper-converged non extendable node with local storage (not gluster). This blog post is going to show you how you can install RHVM on baremetal and add the same host which hosts the baremetal engine to RHVM. As always,…
As you probably read we did opensource ansible tower https://github.com/ansible/awx . This was a big and necessary step to follow the red hat way of being truly opensource. Thanks to Jeff Geerling we also have a role https://galaxy.ansible.com/geerlingguy/awx/ to install awx. To install AWX on RHEL (remember this is not supported by GSS) you need to…
Let say you want to prove to your security team that running a pod in Red Hat OpenShift is really removing capabilities from the running container. There is not much documentation out there which explains how to find what capabilities get stripped so I will walk you through how you can make the case. Step…
It was a great honor to present at Asia Tech Exchange in Vietnam! The presentation I gave was a modified version of the Red Hat Summit presentation and included a live demo of deploying Satellite 6, Ansible Tower, CloudForms and Red Hat Insights fully integrated in 45 minutes. The participants were able to understand and…
I will be speaking at Red Hat Tech Exchange in Vietnam September 3rd about the power of integration around the Red Hat Management portfolio. You will see a life demo on how you can deploy and full integrate CloudForms, Satellite6 and Ansible Tower. I will also explain why it is important to have native integration…
Here is the content I’ve presented at the NJ Red Hat User Group in Woodbridge.
CloudForms has the capability to trigger a management event if the driving event is met. So for example if a vmware vm gets a reset you can execute a custom event under System – Events – CustomEvents – Management: If you want to execute a Management event you will need to copy the Management class…