https://blog.oconnordaniel.com/tags/ansible/ Recent content in Ansible on Dans homepage Hugo en-us Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:10:12 -0600 https://blog.oconnordaniel.com/blog/ansible/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:10:12 -0600 https://blog.oconnordaniel.com/blog/ansible/ <h2 id="how-i-use-ansible">How I use ansible</h2> <p>This is a quick summary of how I use Ansible to setup my environment. Bare in mind that I&rsquo;m not an expert or anything. I&rsquo;m just showing you how I user it to make my life a little saner.</p> <p>I have 3 main classes of playbooks that I use.</p> <ol> <li>Setup Server</li> <li>Setup Service</li> <li>Setup Workstation</li> </ol> <h2 id="setup-server">Setup Server</h2> <p>This is one of my bigger ansible playbook. It does a lot of little things but it does them to all the systems in my environment. So when I first spin up a new VM, I start by assigning it a static IP (and maybe DNS entry) in my DHCP server, then I add it&rsquo;s IP to my inventory file an re-run the playbook.</p> https://blog.oconnordaniel.com/blog/automation/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 10:00:00 -0600 https://blog.oconnordaniel.com/blog/automation/ <p>So&hellip; now that we have a site with a post, I now have to figure out how to automate adding more posts.</p> <p>Of corse my first thought was just make some .sh files to handle all the updates.</p> <pre><code>- Add a .md file to _posts - `bundle jekyll` to build the site folder - git push - ssh to the ec2 instance - git pull - docker stop, rm, build, run, left, right, up, down </code></pre> <p>So&hellip;. no. I could do it like that, but I don&rsquo;t have the time or skills to build in all the <code>try do catch</code> stuff needed to make sure that if things broke, they break before they go live.</p>