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Configuration Management 101: Writing Ansible Playbooks — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Configuration Management 101: Writing Ansible Playbooks

This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating an automated server provisioning using Ansible, a configuration management tool that provides a complete automation framework and orchestration capabilities. We will focus on the language terminology, syntax and features necessary for creating a simplified example to fully automate the deployment of an Ubuntu 18.04 web server using Apache.

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Как создать сервер Hashicorp Vault с помощью Packer и Terraform в the cloud provider [Краткое руководство] — Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Как создать сервер Hashicorp Vault с помощью Packer и Terraform в the cloud provider [Краткое руководство]

Vault от Hashicorp — это инструмент с открытым исходным кодом, предназначенный для безопасного хранения секретов и конфиденциальных данных в динамических облачных средах. Packer и Terraform, также…

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How To Manage Infrastructure Data with Terraform Outputs — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Infrastructure Data with Terraform Outputs

Terraform outputs are used to extract information about the infrastructure resources from the project state. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Terraform outputs their syntax and parameters by creating a simple infrastructure that deploys Droplets. You’ll also learn about parsing the outputs programmatically, by converting them to JSON.

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Creating and Running your First Ansible Playbook — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Creating and Running your First Ansible Playbook

Playbooks use the YAML format to define one or more *plays*. A play is a set of ordered tasks that are arranged in a way to automate a process, such as setting up a web server or deploying an application to production. Learn how to create and execute your first playbook in this short guide.

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How To Build a Hashicorp Vault Server Using Packer and Terraform on the cloud provider [Quickstart] — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Build a Hashicorp Vault Server Using Packer and Terraform on the cloud provider [Quickstart]

Vault, by Hashicorp, is an open-source tool for securely storing secrets and sensitive data in dynamic cloud environments. Packer and Terraform, also developed by Hashicorp, can be used together to create and deploy images of Vault. In this tutorial, you’ll use Packer to create an immutable snapshot of the system with Vault installed, and orchestrate its deployment using Terraform.

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How To Manage Multiple Servers with Ansible Ad Hoc Commands — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Multiple Servers with Ansible Ad Hoc Commands

With Ansible, you can use ad hoc commands to execute one instruction at a time on one or more remote servers. They are ideal to perform tasks that aren’t executed frequently, and to consult information about the remote systems that Ansible manages. In this cheatsheet guide, you’ll learn how to use ad hoc commands to manage one or more servers with Ansible, and how to perform some common tasks this way.

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Infrastructure as Code Explained — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Infrastructure as Code Explained

In this article, we define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and explain the benefits of IaC in development and deployment workflows. We also start to learn about Terraform’s role in the IaC workflow and understand “what is ‘state’?” in IaC.

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