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Ansible Tower

Ansible Journey @ General Mills- First used Ansible core to automate serverpatching- Linux team started using it for moreautomation tasks- Network and Enterprise App teams caught on- We started encouraging other teams todeploy applications using Ansible--Separate application from OS configWindows web hosting team got involvedApp Dev CoE team.Automation team.DBA team.

What led to Ansible Tower?- Ops people spending a lot of time runningplaybooks for other people- Cron filling up with ansible jobs-No easy way of notifying of failure- Lack of Linux expertise on Windows side- Need for integration with other tools (API)- Want to hide playbook contents while still givingpeople ability to run them- Desire for complete inventory of systems-Physical and virtualRegularly updating

Tower Installation-Download latest tarballInstallation script that calls playbook--Postgres databaseServices--Also comes with config/database backupand restore functionalityRabbitMQNginxSupervisordInstall python dependencies in Ansiblevirtual environment- Separate from Tower virtualenv

Our EnvironmentF5- Clustered setup-Two control nodesExternal Postgres database server- Load balancing via F5 across both controlnodes- Nodes are RHEL 7.3 virtual machines- Each team has own Ansible core server-Control Node 1Control Node 2Set up to push to TFS Git repos- Tower logs exported to SplunkPostgres

Tower Demo-Goal: Provision a new server in Digital Ocean and deploy an Nginx containerCreate Project from GitHub playbook repoCreate Inventory to use for Digital Ocean serversCreate three Job Templates-Push SSH key and provision new serverAdd new server to inventoryDeploy Docker and Nginx container- Create Workflow Job Template to chain templates- Execute workflow via UI

Advice- Playbook compatibility with Tower-Minimize local actions - use delegate to insteadRemember Tower is running as “awx” user- Don’t turn off job isolation to get Kerberos working-Other Tower users can access credential cache- Write playbooks for Tower control node installation-Some configurations are local to nodes in /etc/tower/conf.dPython dependencies for modules- PyCharm with Git integration is great for editing roles- Don’t set “Update on Launch” if you want concurrent job templates- userguide/job templates.html#utilizing-cloud-credentials

Ansible Tower. Ansible Journey @ General Mills - First used Ansible core to automate server patching - Linux team started using it for more . - Remember Tower is running as “awx” user - Don’t turn off job isolation to get Kerberos working - Other Tower users can access credential cache

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