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Friday, January 29, 2016

Ansible – Playbooks

In our previous articles we have seen how we can use Ansible to perform basic commands on a remote machine. In this article we will see playbooks. Playbooks are a completely different way to use Ansible. Playbooks are nothing but configuration details that are defined in a text files which tell us what actions needs to be done on the remote machines. For the Ansible to execute on the remote machine we don’t need any additional...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Ansible – More Modules and Commands

In this article we will see a more in-depth uses of the Ansible command using the Same hosts file. Ping the Local Machine [root@vx111a docker]# ansible all -i 'localhost,' -c local -m ping localhost | success >> {     "changed": false,     "ping": "pong" } List all the Hosts Defined...
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Getting Ansible to Work

In the previous article we have seen what is Ansible and installing Ansible. In this article we will see how we can start working with Ansible. This article provides you with the basic Usage and commands available. For the testing purpose we will be creating a Vagrant virtual machine and then use the Ansible tool on that machine. 1) Create...
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Getting Started With Ansible

Now in the world of increasing virtual machines, Containers and Cloud environment, consider the process of administering them, keeping them all updated, pushing changes out to them, copying files etc. These things will get complicated and time consuming when we have a large server fleet. One of the common problems while managing...
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Docker – Data Volumes

In the previous articles we have seen how we can create containers from various images and created our own basic image for our use. But a container is just a image that we use and if we remove a container everything is gone. What if we want to write data from inside a container? Consider a application running inside a container want...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Docker – Tomcat with Docker

We have been seeing multiple articles on how to run applications inside the Docker container. Similarly in this article we will see how we can run a tomcat server in a Docker container. We will also expose ports so that we can access the tomcat application. Search for the Docker container with tomcat server by using the command “docker...
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Docker – basics

We have been working on Virtual machines until now but containers are rapidly pushing the virtualization technology behind. In this article we will see a container based technology called Docker. Docker is an Open-source Project that helps in creating and managing linux based containers. These containers are light weight VM’s thus...
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