DNF : Dandified YUM
Dandified YUM or simply DNF is an advanced version of the Yellowdog Updater, Modified OR simply YUM, a package manager for rpm-based Linux distributions. The […]
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Ansible: Roles and Modules from Content Collections
The Content Collection is a set of related roles, supplementary modules, and other content. This can be obtained from an Ansible Content Collection and can be […]
Ansible: Adding a YUM or DNF repository
A yum or dnf repository can be added to managed nodes using Ansible. This is done using the ansible builtin yum_repository module. Basics of creating […]
Creating YUM and DNF Repositories
As we all knows the yum and dnf commands are used to download and install software packages from software repositories configured in the node. In […]
Ansible: Configuration file
When executing a playbook, ansible uses certain values mentioned in the “ansible.cfg” file. This includes the location of “inventory” file, etc. The “ansible.cfg” file can […]
Ansible: Install NFS mounts (NFS server installation included)
NFS, or Network File Share is a service that allows client to store and share files and folders that will be stored in a centralized […]
Ansible: Add and remove crontab files
Ansible can be used to remotely configure cron entries or even create a crontab files in managed nodes. The below example creates a crontab file […]
Ansible : Running jobs as a specific user
Though ansible server will run jobs in managed nodes as a root user, we can specify the user account using which the jobs should get […]
Redhat – Boot Target
A Linux systems can boot up in various modes based on user preference. For example we can configure a node to start on GUI mode, where once […]
Ansible: Scheduling jobs using AT and CRON
Ansible provides a means to schedule jobs to be executed on a future time, weather it is a one time job or ones to be […]