In this post I am going to introduce Ansible roles and walk you through a process of iterative refinement of an Ansible project. The goal here will be to automatically deploy and configure a simple repository serving static files. I will start from a playbook with multiple tasks and slowly build towards a better, more … Continue reading "Ansible – from tasks to roles"

In this post, I am going to introduce one of the tools which we use here at Tratif for automating software installations. Most of our projects written in Java require a lot of third party services to function (e.g. MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis). This imposes a mandatory installation step to be performed before we deploy our … Continue reading "Introduction to automated provisioning and deployment with Ansible"