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Musings and ramblings on a variety of topics.

Ansible and Cassandra

An exercise in how you can use Ansible to build a Cassandra Cluster

Greg Smith

4 minute read

This is the final in my series on using Ansible. In this post I summarise how you can use Ansible to deploy a Cassandra cluster using my cass-deployer playbook.

Ansible and AWS EC2

An exercise in how you can use Ansible to build a VPC in AWS

Greg Smith

7 minute read

This is an exercise to highlight some more advanced features of Ansible and using these features in a practical way to build a fully functioning VPC in Amazon EC2, complete with all Elastic IPs, NAT Gateways, security groups and even some instances running in different Availability Zones.

Ansible for Beginners

What is ansible and why should I use it?.

Greg Smith

4 minute read

If you have been writing scripts to install and configure things, then this post is for you. Ansible is at it’s heart an automation tool to ease the burden of deploying, configuring and managing your infrastructure, services and associated config. In this short post I will go through some of the basics that will hopefully get you started on your ansible journey.

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