Configuration Management

How to Manage Multistage Environments with Ansible — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Multistage Environments with Ansible

Ansible is a powerful configuration management system used to set up and manage infrastructure and applications in varied environments. While Ansible provides easy-to-read syntax, flexible workflows, and powerful tooling, managing large numbers of hosts that have important…

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How to Install and Configure Ansible on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Ansible on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS

Configuration management is an administrative concept that deals with managing multiple remote machines from a single server in an automated way. Ansible is a simple, but powerful configuration management system that communicates with and configures remote systems through simple SSH connections. In this guide, we will discuss how to install and configure an Ansible server that we can later use to control our hosts

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How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04

Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one central location. In this guide, we will discuss how to install Ansible on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine and go over some basics of how to use the software.

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How To Manage Your Kubernetes Configurations with Kustomize — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Your Kubernetes Configurations with Kustomize

In this guide, you will build a small web application and then use Kustomize to manage your configuration sprawl. You will deploy your app to development and production environments with different configurations. You will also layer these variable configurations using Kustomize’s bases and overlays so that your code is easier to read and thus easier to maintain.

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How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible eBook — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible eBook

This book is designed to introduce you to using Ansible to manage your servers. You’ll learn how to install and configure Ansible on a control node, and then how to use it to configure and run commands on remote servers. You’ll also learn how to collect tasks into complete Playbooks to automate server setup from start to finish. This eBook is available for download in both EPUB and PDF formats.

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What Is Immutable Infrastructure? — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

What Is Immutable Infrastructure?

Immutable infrastructure is an infrastructure paradigm in which servers are never modified after they’re deployed. This article explains the conceptual and practical differences between mutable and immutable infrastructure, describes the advantages of using an immutable infrastructure and contextualizes the complications, and gives a high-level overview of the implementation details and necessary components for an immutable infrastructure.

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