Tag Archives: ansible

Automate Nagios Monitoring with Ansible

Posted on June 24, 2016 by

Infrastructure monitoring is important and there’s lots of tools for it.  I’m fond of Nagios – it’s very mature and customizable but it’s also a giant pain in the ass to setup.  Here’s how to save time deploying and managing … Continue reading →

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Quick and Dirty Remote Execution with Ansible

Posted on May 19, 2016 by

Ansible is a wonderful tool for orchestration, configuration management and automating a lot of tasks you’d never want to do by hand.  Sometimes you just need to get in there and run a few commands across a bunch of different … Continue reading →

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Automate 7 Days to Die Game Server Deployment with Ansible

Posted on May 14, 2016 by

7 Days to Die is an extremely fun apocalyptic zombie survival crafting game with much less emphasis on the crafting and more on survival.  It’s a cross between the good building aspects of Minecraft, with the bleak realism of Rust … Continue reading →

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Automate Deployment of the ELK/EFK Stack with Ansible

Posted on April 8, 2016 by

I recently needed to completely automate deploying a full ELK/EFK stack and clients and didn’t find anything that suited my needs so I wrote the playbooks for this in Ansible.  This was my first real foray into automation with Ansible, … Continue reading →

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