Automation engineer writing about practical Ansible at Autodotes — playbooks, platform operations, and integrations you can run in production.
Autodotes is a hands-on blog focused on Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: execution environments, config-as-code, event-driven automation, and wiring Ansible into ServiceNow, cloud platforms, observability tools, and enterprise identity. Posts include tutorials, reference playbooks, and open-source utilities (notably ansible-butler).
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Platform install, auth, policy, backups, inventories, and day-2 operations for Ansible Automation Platform.
- Getting Started with Policy Enforcement for Ansible Automation Platform
- Deploy an Open Policy Agent Server with Quadlet
- LDAP Config-as-Code for Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+
- Migrate Dynamic Inventories without Hosts and Groups
- Postman Collections for Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
- Automate AAP Backups to S3
- AAP Containerized Install: Online
- Custom AAP Reporting Plugins
- Ansible Inventory: Microsoft AD Plugin
- Map Azure AD Groups to AAP Organization Admins
- Ansible Automation Platform: Map Azure AD Groups to Orgs
- Generate an Ansible Automation Platform API Token
Building, signing, syncing, and troubleshooting execution environments, collections, and Automation Hub content.
- Signing Ansible Execution Content (CI)
- Signing Ansible Execution Content (CLI)
- Automated Collection Build Pipelines
- Scheduled Private Automation Hub Repository Syncs
- Ansible Execution Environments Crash Course
- Automate Execution Environment Builds for Offline Use Cases
- Breaking Down an Automation Mesh Job
- Automated Execution Environment Builds
Rulebooks, Kafka, webhooks, and reactive automation patterns.
- Event-Driven Ansible Workflow Labels
- Quick Setup to Experiment with Kafka and Event-Driven Ansible
- EDA + Dynatrace Webhook Source
- Remediate Windows Issues with New Relic and Event-Driven Ansible
- Use EDA to Automate Your (Dynatrace) Problems Away
- Event-Driven Ansible: Wind Turbine
CMDB, catalog, inventory plugins, and ITSM-driven Ansible workflows.
- Automated Screen Captures with Ansible and Selenium
- Use Ansible to Fulfill Service Now VMWare Guest Orders
- Service Now: Launch Ansible Job Template by Name
- Use Ansible to Setup Service Now Integration
- Ansible Inventory: Service Now Plugin
- Use Ansible and Dynatrace SNMP to Populate ServiceNow CMDB
Config-as-code, backups, compliance, lifecycle reporting, and firewall sandboxes.
- Provision a Palo Alto Sandbox for Ansible on AWS
- Network Automation: Config as Code
- Network Automation: Config Backup and Restore
- Network Automation: Cisco Lifecycle Report
- Network Automation: Microsoft Office 365 ACLs
- Network Automation: Interactive Report
- Network Automation: Compliance Report
WinRM, AD, PowerShell, storage, and Windows platform tasks.
- Powershell with Ansible Tip: Structured Output
- A Journey from Scripts to Ansible
- Bulk Add Users to AD Group
- Windows: Delete Long File Paths
- Get SMB Share Information
- Ansible: Setup WinRM via PsExec
- Ansible: Windows Domain Join
Azure, AWS, Terraform, DNS, patching, and cloud resource lifecycle.
- Dynamic DNS with Ansible
- Using Ansible with Terraform on Azure
- Let's Encrypt DNS Challenge with Ansible
- Automate Snapshot Lifecycles
- Ansible Patching Workflow
Facts, tabular output, callbacks, and custom reporting for operations teams.
- Reporting on Failures with a Callback Plugin
- Ansible Per-Host Tabular Report
- Automated Last Login Report
- Ansible Facts Report
- Ansible Tabular Report
Ansible Vault, HashiCorp Vault, Let's Encrypt, Kerberos, and credential patterns.
- Custom Credential Type for Kerberos Authentication with Ansible
- Developing with Ansible Vault
- Ansible Per-Host Credentials from HashiCorp Vault
- Ansible Playbook to Install HashiCorp Vault
- Let's Encrypt Cert Renewal
CLI utilities for execution environments, collections, job templates, and project scaffolding.
- Ansible Butler: Clone Job Template
- Ansible Butler: EE Inspect (and updates)
- Ansible Butler: Inspect Execution Environment Dependencies
- Ansible Butler: List Collections in Playbook
- Ansible Butler: Directory Setup
- Ansible Butler: Cleaning Up Role Init
Filter plugins, JSON query, and parsing structured command output.
- Ansible Filter Plugin: Parse lsof Output
- Ansible Filter Plugin: Parse Top Output
- Using Json Query to Wrangle Complex Objects in Ansible
Installing and managing Microsoft SQL Server with Ansible.
Smart-home collections and playful real-world automation.
Playbook patterns, linting, APIs, connectivity, and general Ansible how-tos.