Category: Software

BaldeLogic is a server automation suite. 
An admin needs to manage sever configuration, patching,  compliance, change control, change management, provisioning etc.
BaldeLogic does this automation when several server needs this activities to be done. 
In order to Bladelogic infrastructure has BSA centralized interface using that admin sets configuration,  deploy, etc for any number of servers. 
All servers needs an agent to be installed. BSA uses port 4750 to call all the agents and achieve this requirement.

Ansible is an IT automation tool to fulfill DevOps requirements. Ansible is written in Ruby, python, and powershell.

Ansible is used for cloud provisioning, application deployments, server patching , rebooting, configuration management, and many more IT tasks fulfillment.

Ansible Scripts are written in ansible playbook(s). I will include few sample playbooks and explain the its own declarative language below in this article.

What’s make Ansible so unique and top winner?

The main feature of Ansible is that it does not need Agents or any other special security infrastructure unlike other IT automation tools in the market.
Ansible just needs its automation jobs written in YAML file called as Ansible playbooks. 

What is Ansible Role directory structure ?

Role directory structure contains tasks, handlers, vars, files, templates etc. Roles helps to automatically load these. Ansible playbook is a mapping between hosts and Roles. E.g. are site.yml, webserbers.yml etc. While roles are set of tasks and variables.
Typical ansible directory layout contains inventory files to represent production and other staging environments.There will be master playbook yml files, webserver, dbserver yml files, other libraries representing custom modules like utility, plugins yml files, group and host representatives yml files, then roles as discussed above contains set of yml files and finally if needed monitoring yml files can also be added to a playbook.

 

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-name: install a package
    yum:
      name: nginx
      state: installed
      validate_certs: no
      skip_broken: yes

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Vagrant is highly useful to build and maintain portable virtual software development environment by doing software configuration management.
Vagrant is developed using Ruby. Vagrant uses provisioners like puppet or chef. Also Vagrat natively supports comes providers like Docker, VMware.
Vagrant acts as a middle layer between virtualization software and providers like Docker containers.

On Error Resume Next


strComputer = "."
Const Quote = """"
Dim Result


' Store the arguments in a variable:
Set Args = Wscript.Arguments

Result = 0

'check usage
If 2 <> Args.Count Then
	Wscript.Quit 1
End If


If 2 = Args.Count Then
	Dim FilePath, strLine,stringToFind, strIndex, strTemp
	FilePath = Args(0)
	StringToFind = Args(1)
	Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
	if Not objFSO.FileExists(FilePath) Then
		WScript.Echo StringToFind
		WScript.Echo "FileReadError!"
		Wscript.Quit 1
	Else		
		Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(FilePath)	

		Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
			strLine = objFile.ReadLine
			'WScript.Echo strLine
			strIndex = InStr(1, strLine, StringToFind,1) 
			If strIndex = 1  Then				
				strTemp=Replace(strLine," ","",Len(StringToFind)+1)
				WScript.Echo StringToFind&"#"&strTemp									
			End If
		Loop
		objFile.Close
	End If

End If
Wscript.Quit Result