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…
VMware’s Cloud Automation Center (vCAC) is a tool that enables end users to consume the services that reside in your company’s data center while allowing administrators to maintain control over this consumption. In other words, vCAC brings to the enterprise cloud-like tools that can ease the workload on IT while enabling business units to provision…