They said it couldn’t be done! They were wrong. As I continue my dive into Ansible and automation in general, I’ve been working on a real world project created by one of my colleagues at Juniper. I wanted to get my Windows OS to work as an Ansible control machine. Currently Ansible doesn’t support Windows as…
My previous two blog posts (YAML Ain’t Markup Language and Ansible Inventory Files) have been leading up to this. In the YAML post I mentioned that .yml files can be used to make Ansible Playbooks and that’s what we’ll be going over in this blog. If you’ve heard about tools like Chef, for example, it…
What is Ansible? The elevator pitch for Ansible is that it’s an automation engine, not unlike Puppet and Chef. However, Ansible doesn’t require the use of any agents on the target machines. Which is always appealing to IT folks, because not only are we automating and making things consistent, we’re also taking away administrative headaches…
Markup Languages Let’s start at the beginning. What is a Markup Language? Simply put, it’s a way of writing something on a computer that might help it present as visually more appealing to the end user. For example HTML allows web designers to change font size, background color, and introduce paragraphs. There are other markup…
I met with Uila via WebEx a couple weeks ago. My Internet was down, so I had to use my phone. It wasn’t ideal for a demo style interview. If only I had some monitoring tool to help me with root cause analysis. I was blaming the cable company, it was usually their fault. We…
We sit, a group of about 30, at the Oracle offices on Twin Dolphin Drive just steps away from one of Larry Ellison’s sailboats, surrounded by remnants from the Oracle of yesterday. We’re here to talk about the future of Oracle, though. It’s the second annual Oracle Ravello Blogger Day, with about 40% of folks…
In order to keep my hands dirty, I reached out to the Cisco DevNet team to see if I could help them out with literally anything. I happened to be at KubeCon and met up with Mandy Whaley, who led me to Anne Gentle. Both amazing people working with DevNet, and they said I could…
As I’m getting started with all things Containers, I’m reading the Kubernetes Up & Running book. Unfortunately some of it is already a little beyond me, so I’ve had to do some digging with each new page I read. For example, storing a Docker Image in a public repository is something pretty new to me.…
I’ve started a new project at work (Cisco) where I take the demos you can see at the booths at Cisco Live and I put them on video so that everyone can enjoy them. So far, I only have 5, but I’ll be adding more every quarter! These videos are only 3-5 minutes, but they…
I’ve been on a learning kick as of late, and at least as of this week I’m concentrating on security and programmability (not necessarily together). I’ve started going through the DevNet modules and got into some interesting labs and reading around YANG and NETCONF. Truthfully, I had kind of avoided these things because they weren’t…