IT Service Management (ITSM) teams are increasingly turning to generative AI (GenAI) to streamline workflows, reduce resolution times, and improve user satisfaction. In this post, we’ll explore two architectures for integrating GenAI into platforms like ServiceNow: man-in-the-middle (human-in-the-loop) and agentic automation (autonomous AI agents). Why GenAI for ITSM? […]
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enhances infrastructure management but brings security risks like misconfigurations and secret exposure. This guide outlines best practices for securing Terraform and Ansible pipelines, including treating IaC like application code, managing secrets appropriately, implementing automated security scans, and enforcing the principle of least privilege for enhanced protection.
There is no question Microsoft Teams is everywhere these days. Many IT teams use it to collaborate on projects or even day-to-day tasks. On the other hand engineers like to know what their automation solution is doing. Therefore, sending notifications is a very welcome addition to most automation […]
While most of the vendors and their platforms (including DellEMC) are having Ansible modules published, but there are instances where functionality you’re trying to use isn’t covered in the available module or simply modules aren’t available at all. In such situations you’ve no choice than using Ansible URI […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (6th Part) of this blog series, we discussed how to prepare Ansible Tower/AWX with Dell EMC storage credentials. In this blog post, we will install Dell EMC PowerStore collection on Ansible AWX and go […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (5th part) of this blog series, we discussed how to install Ansible AWX / Tower in a docker container and Dell EMC Ansible modules inside the Ansible AWX / Tower container. In this […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In this 5th part, we will discuss about Ansible Tower (using AWX) and how to install and configure the same. Overview In my posts till now you might noticed that I have only used command line option to […]
Recently while I was trying to install AWX using Ansible I came across below error on Centos. While this error was referring to missing pip package “docker-compose”, but when I tried to install the same it gave below error stating that it’s already installed. After trying multiple solutions […]
I have seen this error multiple times during my Ansible playbooks execution but always ignored it because I always got the expected result. Eventually, I wanted to get rid of any errors/warnings from my final version of the playbook and wanted to take care of this error as […]
I have been working with Ansible for automating Kubernetes deployment using CentOS VM templates. As a pre-requisite we need to ensure net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables and net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables is set to 1. I created below tasks in my Ansible role playbook. But when I executed this playbook I got below error After […]