Month: August 2020

AWX LDAP/Active Directory Authentication 

An issue I ran into the other day when trying to setup Active Directory authentication in Ansible AWX, using LDAP auth type. These are a couple things that aren’t exactly called out in the documentation from Red Hat, and might not be obvious to all. You can use ldap:// if you aren’t setup for ldaps://

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Useful Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands

Ansible doesn’t always have to be crazy complex playbooks doing super cool stuff. Sometimes, it’s really useful to get some output from al your devices like versioning, VLANs, IP addresses, etc… Here I plan to collect some of the one-liners I end up using so others can see what’s possible. This will be a dynamic

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Ansible/AWX Custom Credential Types

Sometimes in Ansible you need to support legacy devices, or API’s that require hard coded passwords or API strings in your playbooks. One way around this is to use custom credential objects in AWX/Tower. This can keep your playbooks generic for storage in your version control system, and shareable, while keeping your credentials safe. If

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