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Here I'm starting this post with famous ARISTOTLE quote. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a Habit" Welcome back Ansible Automations and who are habituated as Ansible automation specialists this post for them to give boosted walk through, In this post, I would like to share my experiments with Jinja2 templates usage on the Ansible playbook. Of-course Jinja is from Japan it is world famous for templatization capabilities badvanced Ansible templating techniquesy integrating with multiple languages such as Python, Ruby, Salt talk etc. In this post we will be cover the following topics: What is Jinja2 template do in Ansible? Template with filters Template with Lists and sets Template module in Ansible Template with Flow Control Template using Looping Template inheritance** What is Jinja2 template do in Ansible? Jinja2 is another Python library created for Flask web framework, that comes part of Ansible installation. It is special ability as i...

Hello Guys, In this post, I would like to experiment with the installation of AWX on a new variety of Linux that is Alpine Linux. Prerequisites Here I will go with the Alpine Linux which is the default Operating System on  Play with  Docker  alternatively, You must have at least 3 boxes on either vagrant  or Any cloud instances (AWS) 1 Ansible engine remaining 2 for remote nodes AWX is GUI/web tool which is currently broken down to AWX-operator and AWX Task The AWX up to 18 version installations used docker based environments, where it uses the following Docker images from the Docker hub Postgress SQL Rabbit MQ MemCache Steps to install AWX 1. Update the repo on the Alpine Linux apk update 2. Installing with apk package manager 'add' subcommand will do the installation. apk add ansible This will be installing Ansible on Alpine Linux. Ansible installation on Play with Docker (PWD) instance   3. Validate the ansible installation using the version option. an...