Configuration Management

How To Install Puppet To Manage Your Server Infrastructure — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Puppet To Manage Your Server Infrastructure

Puppet, from Puppet Labs, is a configuration management tool helps system administrators automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of a server infrastructure. Planning ahead and using config management tools like Puppet can cut down on time spent repeating basic…

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How To Use Fabric To Automate Administration Tasks And Deployments — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Fabric To Automate Administration Tasks And Deployments

In this the cloud provider article, the system administration and application deployment streamlining library “Fabric” is our subject. We will learn how to install this wonderful tool, as well as see how easy things can become by simply automating mundane management tasks that would otherwise require jumping through hoops with bash hacks and hard-to-maintain, complex scripts.

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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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SaltStack Infrastructure: Installing the Salt Master — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

SaltStack Infrastructure: Installing the Salt Master

In this article, we’ll introduce the various environments we’ll be building out and install the Salt master daemon onto our primary server. This is the core system that will house our configuration instructions, control our infrastructure nodes, and manage our requirements.

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How To Install and Manage System Packages in Ansible Playbooks — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Manage System Packages in Ansible Playbooks

Automating the installation of required system packages is a common operational task in Ansible playbooks, since a typical application stack requires software from different sources. In this guide, learn more about how to use the apt module to manage system packages on Debian-based operating systems such as Ubuntu.

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