Geekops Jab

Introduction Ansible is a powerful open-source automation tool that simplifies IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. Its agentless architecture and simple YAML-based playbooks make it a favorite among IT professionals. In this blog post, we’ll explore Ansible’s key components, its working process, and some common use cases. Key Components of Ansible Control Node: This is the machine where Ansible is installed. It controls the entire automation process by executing playbooks on managed nodes.  Managed Nodes: These are the target machines that Ansible manages. They can be servers, cloud instances, or network devices.  Inventory: This is a file that lists all the managed nodes. It can be a simple text file or a dynamic inventory script that fetches the list of nodes from a cloud provider.  Modules: These are small programs that Ansible pushes out from the control node to the managed nodes. They perform specific tasks like installing so

As you know my everyday driver is a Windows 10 PC and I usually can't go for another system which is as smooth and user-friendly as it gets. But I have few unpleasant quirks with my daily driver which does not allow me to experiment with opensource software packages and builds, which usually oriented towards Linux gear. Previously my dependency was with Vagrant, cause its easily available boxes, configuration management abilities and cli mode approach. But from recent days, I started to feel a bit distanced with the Vagrant tool, that became a bit sloth on its own. So, we got an alternate tool to handle my VM jobs. Introducing VMWare Workstation 16 Player (works well with Windows Hyper-V platform) which comes with GUI features. Compared to Vagrant, VMWare Workstation is not a CLI only tool and has more towards UI approach. So, in this blogs lets dive into the steps, I took to setup Concourse CI on top of Rocky Linux for my Devops CI/CD lab experiments. Prerequisite: Get the VMWare