October 2015 ~ Ahmed AbouZaid!

25/10/2015

Opsview/Nagios as dynamic inventory for Ansible - Python

Ahmed AbouZaid 25/10/2015 Ansible, Nagios/Opsview, Python Comments

Abstract.

I needed to a unified inventory for all servers I manage, so I made a Python script retrieves servers list and ssh ports from Opsview via APIs, and it supports 4 kinds of output formats:

Ansible dynamic inventory.
Ansible static inventory (INI-like).
OpenSSH config file.
Pure JSON.

You can find it on Github: Opsview as Ansible inventory.
It looks like a hack more than anything else, and most importantly .. it works! :D
And for now it's enough for current needs.

15/10/2015

Getting Started with Ansible - Presentation

Ahmed AbouZaid 15/10/2015 Ansible, DevOps, Presentation Comments

If you looked at the sidebar of this blog, you will find I introduce myself as linux system engineer who is too lazy to do anything manually :D

I have no problem to digging and troubleshooting an issue for hours, or dealing with new technology from zero, but

09/10/2015

Install S3cmd via pip - Ansible

Ahmed AbouZaid 09/10/2015 Ansible, AWS Comments

Recently, I needed to install S3Cmd with some other tools via pip, but I didn't find any Ansible role do that, so I made one "ansible-latest-s3cmd".

02/10/2015

Efficient and quick way to delete files! - Bash

Ahmed AbouZaid 02/10/2015 Bash, Tips and Tricks Comments

On the sidelines of previous post "An efficient and quick way to search with find, grep, and xargs", I've just remembered one of servers has an issue with sessions garbage collection! So, after a while