Musings and ramblings on a variety of topics.
An exercise in how you can use Ansible to build a Cassandra Cluster
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.
An exercise in how you can use Ansible to build a VPC in AWS
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.
What is ansible and why should I use it?.
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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