I’ve begun developing some Ansible modules and have created a Vagrant environment to help with testing. You can check it over over on my github. The environment has been created to test some MongoDB modules but can easily be repurposed to another use. It’s quite simple to get started; ?View Code BASHgit clone https://github.com/rhysmeister/AnsibleTest.git cd AnsibleTest […]

Here’s yet another project using Vagrant and Ansible. This time it’s for a Jenkins instance. To get started head on over to the Jenkins test instance github page. Consult the readme for setup instructions.

Over on my github is a new project firing up a test instance of AWX. This is based on the following awx installation notes. The project is AWX-on-CentOS-7. You’ll need Virtualbox, Vagrant and Ansible installed to get this up and running. Getting started is simple; 1. From a shell ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.repo-epel git clone https://github.com/rhysmeister/AWX-on-CentOS-7 […]

I’ve been working on a small project to create a Cassandra Cluster for Development purposes. I’m using Vagrant and Ansible to deploy a 5-node Cassandra Cluster and node #5 would always fail to join the cluster. I checked /var/log/cassandra/cassandra.log and this is what I found; INFO [InternalResponseStage:1] 2017-09-09 18:49:07,673 ColumnFamilyStore.java:406 – Initializing system_auth.roles INFO [main] […]

I came across this issue today when working on an ansible playbook with MySQL 5.7. Old habits die hard and I was still trying to use mysql_install_db to initialise my instance. It seems a few others have been doing the same. The effect of using mysql_install_db in more recent version of MySQL is that we end […]