I love Linux. Always have, always will. I run Linux (mostly RHEL and Fedora) on a multitude of devices, from Raspberry Pi's to an old laptop functioning as a server, and VMs on my NAS.

But I have also ended up (long story) doing a lot of work on MacOS …

Calling a GraphQL API from an Ansible playbook

I recently had to call a GraphQL API from an Ansible playbook, and considering I had never done that before and there is little to no documentation about this online, it was a bit tricky.

In the end, I got everything working …

Load balancing Ansible Tower cluster

As you might know, I do a bit of YouTubing. One video request I got a couple of times, was to do a video about clustering Ansible Tower behind a load balancer.

As I had never done that before myself, it sounded interesting, so I …

A quick blog today. I've been wrestling with the ovirt_vms module in Ansible 2.5. I wanted to deploy a RHEL VM from a template on a RHV 4.1 cluster and use cloud-init to customize the VM.

The ovirt_vms module offers a cloud_init option that takes a custom_script parameter …

Today I want to talk about connecting Satellite 6 and Ansible Tower. There are two main benefits you can get right now from connecting Satellite 6 and Ansible Tower if you use both.

Sharing inventory data

First of all, if you share inventory data, you share hostnames and IP addresses …

With the release of Ansible Tower 3.1 a short while back, it became possible to setup Ansible Tower in a highly available, active-active topology. You do this by setting up multiple Tower nodes that talk to a shared PostgreSQL database on a separate node. This database can be setup …