Ansible / Python Cross vcenter clone

During the process of automating VMware template creation, I came across a requirement to clone said templates to different vcenters. After checking out the ansible vmware modules, the vmware REST API documentation, I found that there was no out of box solution to clone to different vcenters. After doing a bit of research, I was … Continue reading Ansible / Python Cross vcenter clone →

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Openstack convert an instance with ephemeral root disk to persistent root disk

Convert an Openstack instance root disk from ephemeral storage to persistent.

Netflix and Python or how I scraped Aussie Netflix tv shows from finder

Scrape finder.com.au with python to obtain Australian Netflix list.

Netflix Australia – March 2019: Top 200 TV Series by IMDB Rating

Having trouble finding a new TV series to watch on Netflix I decided to do an experiment, list an arbitrary number of shows available on Netflix Australia by IMDB rankings. I have written some python modules to scrape finder.com.au for TV Series showing on Aussie netflix, pull it down then search for IMDB ratings using … Continue reading Netflix Australia – March 2019: Top 200 TV Series by IMDB Rating →

Generate SSH Keys

I created a simple play to help a non linux team to be able to generate ssh keys on demand. The playbook requires the var email to be set, once done the playbook generates public/private ssh keypair, then emails the contents of the keys to the specified email address. Finally the playbook deletes the generated … Continue reading Generate SSH Keys →

Ansible Migrate GIT repos

Summary I recently had to figure out how to automate a migration of a dev git repo to a qa git repo. For security reasons, the repositories had to be kept separate, using one repo with branches for environments was immediately ruled out. The challenge then is to maintain 2 seperate git repositories, build an … Continue reading Ansible Migrate GIT repos →

Ansible DNS Check Playbook

Recently I was working on writing some quick Openstack and VMware deployment workflows. I wrote a DNS Check playbook to do a quick DNS lookup that would fail if the requested hostname already existed in DNS. This playbook runs on the ansible host and uses the lookup plugin to perform a dig on the passed … Continue reading Ansible DNS Check Playbook →