Ansible Tower and Windows Authentication
Since the release of Ansible 1.7, way back in the forgotten era of 2014, Ansible can connect to Windows (2008 and higher) using remote PowerShell over that most finicky of mechanisms, WinRM.
SSH and SFTP Public Key Authentication - Doing it Right
Secure Shell might be the greatest component of Linux and the best gem to come from the Open Source community, enabling countless systems to connect to one-another and allowing the secure communication of systems both...
Understanding Certificates - The Job That Everyone Hates
I’m just going to throw it out there, I love working with security, cryptography and certificates. it wasn’t always that way and like a lot of people I used to recoil in horror of the idea of having to work with certi...
Integrating Ansible Tower and Netbox
UPDATE: At the time I wrote this the Netbox Collection was still pretty immature, it isn’t anymore. If you’re trying to do a simple task then you probably just want to go and install the Netbox Collection from Ansible...