Ever wondered how you could run ansible tower in clustered mode across multiple AZ in AWS? This post will describe how you can build the following architecture: First, build 3 ec2 instances each in a different AZ’s. You should be more than ok with t2.large instance sizes. The subnets in the VPC can be private….
Ever wondered what CloudForms can do for you in AWS? The next few blog posts will walk you through step by step how to upload the CloudForms image to AWS, how to assign the correct policies and roles and how to configure it correctly so it can discover your environment. Part 1 is dedicated to…
Red Hat Virtualization and the OpenShift Container Platform go far back. Both products are very well integrated and share security features like svirt and cgroups which are a core security component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Svirt allows you to run your virtual instances as well as containers in full tenant isolation mode whereas cgroups…
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The current apb-1.0.4-1.el7.noarch in OpenShift 3.7 enterprise from the rhel-7-server-ose-3.7-rpms channel is currently broken. When you try to list apb’s you will get the following error: apb push Exception occurred! unsupported operand type(s) for +: ‘NoneType’ and ‘str’ Now I will show you how you can fix this. It is important to follow the steps…
It has to be noted that ansible-container is not a supported redhat product. So everything you see here is unsupported. If you want to use ansible to package containers look at the Ansible Playbook Bundle in OpenShift. I thought it would be a good idea to see where ansible container is. My goal was to create a…
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,…