Manage secrets with Ansible- Vault

We will discuss the procedure/steps to secure your secrets(passwords/keys/certs files) of configuration/deployments by automating with ansible.

ansible-vault is command line tool we use in ansible to encrypt information

Configure Jenkins job with Ansible-Jenkins Plugin to setup CI for Ansible playbooks.

In this post I will go through the configuration of Jenkins job with Ansible plugin to automate the Ansible playbook running.

Pre-requisites on Jenkins…

Configure Jenkins with Github,Artifactory and Sonar Qube

To configure and use Gitlab, SonarQube, Jfrog Artifactory in Jenkins

Requirements on Jenkins Server:

1) Install java latest version (jdk1.7&jdk1.8)

Flow diagram of Tools used in DevOps

DevOps Engineer Will work on all of the tools (choice of tools may vary from environment to…

How to measure cpu load v cpu percentage and examples

It depends on load the server have, and what load you’d expect.

But start with something in the ranges of

1 min load avg:
w: <ncpu> * 8
c: <ncpu> * 10

5 min load avg:
w: <ncpu> * 5
c: <ncpu> * 8

Chef- Knife commands cheat sheet

knife commands:

knife cookbook create apache — to create cookbook

knife cookbook upload apache — to upload cookbook to chef-server

knife node run_list add NODENAME “recipe[NAME]” — to add receipe as a runlist to node…

Monitoring Windows Servers with NSClient++ and Nagios(NRPE)

In this post we will discuss about installing and configuring NSClient++ and define check in nagios servers using NRPE.

Step1: Download the NSClient++ zip file from the below url…

Testing Ansible Playbooks/roles with Test-kitchen and Serverspec

In this post, I will discuss the tools/plugins to test the playbooks/roles as part of infrastructure testing through TDD( Test Driven Development).

Procedure to install Nagios-RabbtiMQ -Plugins and monitor RabbitMQ stats with Nagios.

Install and configure nagios-rabbitmq-plugins in RabbitMQ servers.

Ansible useful tips for Config Management

We will provide brief commands/tips in maintaining the configurations and deployments and to achieve automation for every common scenario using ansible.

1. To start/stop/restart a service- you can use…