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Streamlining Notifications with Ansible: Sending Email Reports

Introduction Automation has become the cornerstone of efficient IT operations in today’s fast-paced technological landscape.

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Automate Redmine Installation on Ubuntu LTS 22.04 with Ansible

Introduction Welcome to a comprehensive guide on automating the installation of Redmine on Ubuntu LTS 22.

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Hands-on Ansible Automation by BPB Online book

Buy on Amazon Buy on BPB WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Gain a comprehensive knowledge of Ansible and its practical applications in Linux and Windows environments.

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Mastering Dynamic Variable Creation with set_fact

Exploring Ansible’s set_fact Module with Example Ansible is an open-source automation tool widely used for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration.

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Mastering Regex in Ansible: Search, Extract, and Replace

Regular Expression A regular expression (regex) is a character pattern describing a set of strings.

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Understanding Ansible Builtin vs Legacy Collections: Key Differences

What is the “ansible.builtin” Ansible collection? What is the “ansible.legacy” collection?

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Bard-ing with Ansible: Streamlining Testing for Google's AI Writing Tool

Google Bard Google Bard is the newest Chat-style Artificial Intelligence created by Google based on the Google Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA for short).

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Revolutionising Ansible: Testing the Limits of OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Smarter Automation

OpenAI ChatGPT ChatGPT is a revolutionary artificial intelligence in that we can interact in a conversational way.

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Run Immediately an Ansible Handler - Ansible Playbook

When do Ansible Handlers run? By default, handlers run after all the tasks in a particular play have been completed.

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Two Ways to Run Multiple Ansible Handlers - Ansible Playbook

Two ways to run multiple Ansible handlers How to execute two Ansible handlers on a changed status of Ansible Playbook.

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How to install ansible-lint in macOS

What is the ansible-lint tool? ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.

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Using Date, Time and Timestamp in Ansible Playbook

How to Use Date, Time, and Timestamp in Ansible Playbook Welcome to another episode of Ansible Pilot!

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Decrypt an Ansible Vault - ansible vault

How to decrypt an Ansible Vault? From an encrypted file to plaintext using the correct password.

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Use Ansible Vault in Ansbile Playbook - ansible vault

How to use an Ansible Vault in an Ansible Playbook? How to use an Ansible Vault to Protect Sensitive Data such as passwords, access keys, etc.

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Ansible terminology - What is an Ansible Vault?

Ansible terminology - What is an Ansible Vault? How to store variables and files in an encrypted way using the ansible-vault command line utility.

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Ansible terminology - What is an Ansible Playbook?

What is an Ansible Playbook? I will show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

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Ansible for Windows - Bridging the Automation Divide!

Who This Guide Is For IT professionals and Windows system administrators looking to streamline their infrastructure management using Ansible.

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Run a Python Script on Remote Machines - Ansible module script

How to Run Python Script on Remote Machines after transferring it?

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Ansible troubleshooting - AWS Failed to import the required Python library (botocore or boto3)

Introduction Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about the “Failed to import the required Python library (botocore or boto3)” message and enable Ansible For AWS.

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Ansible troubleshooting - VMware certificate verify failed connecting to vCenter or ESXi

Ansible troubleshooting - VMware certificate verify failed connecting to vCenter or ESXi Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about the “Unable to connect to vCenter or ESXi API [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.

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How to Dry Run an Ansible Playbook: Check & Diff Modes

How to Dry Run an Ansible Playbook? The check and diff modes are extremely useful to have a clear vision of the changes that are going to be performed on the target node.

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Use Date and Time in Ansible Without Facts

How to use Date, Time, and Timestamp without Facts in Ansible Playbook.

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Ansible troubleshooting - VMware Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi

Ansible troubleshooting - VMware Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about the “Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi API, [Errno -2] Name or service not known” message and enable Ansible For VMware.

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Ansible troubleshooting - VMware Failed to Import PyVmomi

Ansible troubleshooting — VMware Failed to Import PyVmomi Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about the “Failed to import the required Python library (PyVmomi)” message and enable Ansible For VMware.

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Configuring Ansible for VMware: Complete Setup Guide & Playbook

How to configure Ansible for VMware? Ansible provides various modules to manage VMware infrastructure, which includes data center, cluster, host system, and virtual machine.

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