This article walks through building an automated database monitoring system using Zabbix and Ansible, covering Zabbix core automation features (LLD, API, trapper), standardizing monitoring conventions, deploying with Ansible, and implementing a Python‑based DBA_Monitor project for Oracle, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
This article compares popular automation‑ops tools—Puppet, Ansible, and Foreman—offering practical guidance on when to use each, how to leverage Ansible’s strengths, and how to work with Puppet’s fact mechanism for dynamic configuration and data collection.
This extensive tutorial walks you through Ansible fundamentals, installation, architecture, key modules, and advanced features such as playbooks, variables, templates, roles, handlers, tags, loops, and conditional execution, providing step‑by‑step examples that demonstrate how to automate configuration, deployment, and management across multiple Linux hosts.
This article introduces Docker as a container engine, explains continuous integration and continuous deployment practices, and surveys major PaaS solutions—including OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, Heroku—as well as automation tools like Ansible and Cloudify, highlighting their roles in modern cloud computing.
This article outlines the motivations, design principles, system architecture, and key tools—including Cobbler, Ignite‑UX, WSUS, and Ansible—behind a bank’s automated operations platform, and details Ansible’s features, capabilities across Linux, HPUX, Windows and OpenStack, and its practical application scenarios such as batch changes, software installation, and environment delivery.
This guide introduces the most frequently used Ansible modules—including ping, setup, file, copy, service, cron, yum, user, group, synchronize, mount, and get_url—explaining their purpose, key options, and providing concrete command‑line examples to help you automate system tasks efficiently.
This article walks through a small team’s step‑by‑step journey to low‑cost automated operations, covering monitoring with Prometheus, configuration versioning via Ansible, CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, and scalable script generation using Cookiecutter.
This guide walks small teams through step‑by‑step implementation of low‑cost automated operations, covering basic monitoring with Prometheus, configuration versioning via Ansible, CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and scaling practices, enabling gradual evolution toward enterprise‑grade DevOps architectures.
This guide explains how to install Ansible via yum or pip, outlines its directory layout, describes host inventory setup, details SSH key configuration for password‑less access, and introduces common modules such as ping for basic connectivity testing.
This article explains the challenges of lightweight private‑cloud deployment, classifies distributed‑system types, and presents a practical solution that combines a standard OS layer, Docker containerization, and Ansible automation, illustrated with a real‑world RabbitMQ cluster example and supporting GitHub resources.
This article presents a comprehensive checklist of personal‑level DevOps tools—including JDK, Git, Docker, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, ELK, and Trello—providing download links, basic usage commands, and verification steps so engineers can install, configure, and validate each component on Windows, macOS, or Linux.
This guide walks you through Ansible's core architecture, host inventory setup, variable definitions, and the most commonly used modules—including group, user, copy, cron, shell, and ping—showing practical command examples and how to retrieve module help with ansible‑doc.
This article walks through the design and implementation of a Django‑powered operations management platform, covering request flow, modular app structure, user authentication, asset storage, performance monitoring, batch management with Ansible, and full‑stack front‑end integration, illustrated with diagrams and code snippets.
This article details the evolution, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization of Ultron—360’s internal OpenStack‑based virtualization platform—covering its three development stages, technical stack, automation with Ansible, advanced features like VXLAN and Ceph, and lessons learned from large‑scale operations.
This comprehensive guide walks you through Ansible fundamentals, architecture, installation, core modules, playbook structure, variables, templates, handlers, roles, conditionals, loops, and practical examples, enabling you to automate configuration management across multiple Linux hosts with confidence and precision.
An in‑depth comparison of Ansible and SaltStack evaluates response speed, security, maintenance overhead, and syntax readability, concluding that despite slower performance, Ansible’s superior security and simpler operations make it the preferred automation solution for large‑scale, especially financial, environments.
This article walks through building a Mezzanine CMS blog, first manually on macOS, then automating the deployment with Ansible, refactoring using roles, and finally containerizing the setup with Docker, providing detailed commands, configuration files, and best‑practice tips for production environments.
This article compiles practical experiences from system administrators about common operational pitfalls, their root causes, and concrete mitigation steps, ranging from misconfigured HAProxy timeouts and risky rm commands to ansible async quirks and cron‑job failures.
This guide introduces YAML syntax and features, explains how to define variables, facts, and loops in Ansible, details the INI‑style inventory file format, and walks through creating playbooks with hosts, tasks, handlers, and tags for reliable automation.
This article introduces Ansible as a powerful, agentless automation tool for operations engineers, covering the tasks suitable for batch deployment, its architecture, core concepts like idempotence, essential components, basic command usage, and practical examples such as installing software, managing users, and configuring SSH keys.
This article details the HULK team's experience upgrading their private‑cloud OpenStack environment from Kilo to Mitaka, covering background, risk‑benefit analysis, preparation, step‑by‑step procedures, common pitfalls, and practical solutions, offering actionable guidance for similar OpenStack migrations.
This guide introduces Ansible for operations, covering its core features, installation, host preparation, key management, essential modules, playbook structure, YAML syntax, handlers, tags, variables, templates, loops, and conditional execution, with practical command examples and visual illustrations.
This guide walks through an automated, fast‑track deployment of DCOS components—including service selection, Docker‑based containers, host initialization, system checks, Ansible provisioning, Consul service discovery, HAProxy load balancing, MySQL HA, and Zookeeper/Marathon integration—providing concrete commands, configuration snippets, and practical tips.
This comprehensive guide introduces Ansible, explains its agentless architecture, core components, installation, SSH key setup, inventory configuration, essential commands, and common modules, providing a practical roadmap for automating system administration and deployment tasks.
In this talk, Bilibili’s operations manager shares the journey from early firefighting to a standardized, automated DevOps pipeline, covering ansible‑based configuration, high‑quality release processes, metric‑driven monitoring, and elastic Docker‑based scaling using Mesos, Marathon, Consul, and custom IPAM plugins.
Ansible playbooks, a powerful configuration management tool, use YAML to define tasks, variables, inventory, conditionals, loops, and handlers; this guide explains core components, syntax, variable scopes, command-line overrides, and provides practical examples for installing services, managing users, and triggering handlers based on changes.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to set up an AWS Tokyo VM, install Git and Ansible, clone microservice lifecycle and bookstore repositories, configure Vagrant, build Docker images, run tests with docker‑compose, and push the resulting images to a private registry.
This article describes the design, architecture, and key features of AutoAMS 2.0, an automated asset management system built with Django, Bootstrap, MySQL, and Ansible, showing how it replaces manual Excel‑based tracking, collects server and network data without agents, and streamlines permission and location management for large‑scale operations.
This article introduces Ansible, a Python‑based configuration management and deployment tool, explains its installation prerequisites, demonstrates basic ad‑hoc commands, and provides a comprehensive guide to managing MySQL master‑slave replication using Ansible modules, playbooks, and role‑based directory structures.
This article outlines practical CI/CD and DevOps guidelines for startups, covering application management standards, branch strategies, code review tools, directory layout, permission controls, configuration change processes, release policies, logging practices, and automated deployment using tools like Git, Jenkins, and Ansible.
After hands‑on experience with both Salt and Ansible, the author compares their terminology, architecture, community support, speed, code structure, security, auditing, deployment, learning curve, and documentation, concluding that Ansible excels in ease of use while Salt offers superior scalability and performance for cloud environments.
This 30‑minute session introduces Ansible's core concepts, demonstrates cross‑environment automation for PHP and Java services, showcases modular playbooks, discusses practical deployment workflows, and answers common operational questions, offering a concise yet comprehensive guide for ops engineers.
This article compiles and translates a selection of the most popular DevOps blog posts from the first half of 2015, highlighting key tools such as Fabric, Ansible, Docker, and case studies from Amazon and Netflix, and provides links to the original English sources.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Ansible, covering its purpose, installation via pip, ad‑hoc command usage, MySQL replication with the mysql_replication module, role‑based playbook structure, sample YAML files, execution output, and a comparison with other configuration‑management tools.
This guide walks you through using Ansible—an agent‑less, SSH‑based automation tool—to create reusable roles and deploy a complete LAMP platform across multiple servers, covering installation, inventory setup, SSH key authentication, directory structure, playbooks, tasks, handlers, and verification steps.
This article compiles a Q&A from the InfoQ Efficient Ops Talk, where expert Liu Yu discusses Puppet's limitations, compares automation tools like Ansible and MCollective, and offers practical advice for startups building sustainable release pipelines and managing Windows and cloud environments.
