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Wow, not even getting into the nitty gritty and ansible is really doing us well.

Anyway, looking at doing some custom playbooks, maybe even getting that goal of writing something to do a full featured built.

Got my steps in, breaking my rule of eating late, but been working hard.

Just finished work.

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Wow, learning a lot, I actually installed it on my production network.

Still testing in a lab, but feel good about it.

Starting to write playbooks. Using some playbooks. One of the things I want to do is convert a CLI only server to a GUI server.

Unfortunately, things are not going as expected.

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Wasn’t able to get much steps in today, but I got it done. I was in class most of the day learning ansible.

So for future reference here is how I install it on to Rocky Linux 9. Note that you will need a Red Hat account, although it is free.

First build you Rocky 9 machine and make sure to modify /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid and add the follow (where ansibleuser is the account you will use)

ansibleuser:100000:65536

Then

sudo dnf -y install ansible-core
sudo dnf -y install python3-pip
pip install --user ansible-navigator
podman login registry.redhat.io
podman pull registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8

In the user’s home folder create an ansible folder

In that folder create a file named inventory with the list of machines you want to manage

vi inventory
a-server1
a-server2
a-server3
a-server4

Also create an ansible config file

vi ansible.cfg
[defaults]
inventory = ./ansible
remote_user = ansibleuser
ask_pass = false
[privilege_escalation]
become = true
become_method = sudo
become_user = root
become_ask_pass = false

On each of the hosts make sure the ansible use can sudo

You should be able to test, here are some sample commands

ansible-navigator images
ansible-navigator run -m stdout ping-web.yml
ansible-navigator inventory -m stdout --list
ansible-navigator inventory -m stdout --graph
ansible -m ping all

ansible -m shell -a 'hostname' all
ansible -m shell -a 'id' all
ansible -m shell -a 'echo "hello" > /tmp/hello.txt' all

Got a new filament holder for my 3D printer, one that has bearings and actually spins to reduce friction when feeding the printer. It also extends the spool a few inches outwards so it feeds in a more straight path.

Going to test a few runs, see if it improves things, could be the filament, and it is wet.

Still chugging along

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