{"id":784,"date":"2018-11-18T01:18:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T01:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/?p=784"},"modified":"2018-11-18T01:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T01:25:38","slug":"create-rancher-environments-with-ansible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/2018\/11\/18\/create-rancher-environments-with-ansible\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Rancher Environments with Ansible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention, Ansible users! We\u2019ve released the first version of our<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.ansible.com\/ansible\/latest\/playbooks.html\">Ansible playbooks<\/a> for Rancher. Ansible is a configuration management system that allows you to write instruction manuals it uses to manage local and remote systems. These playbooks give full control over the installation and<br \/>\nconfiguration of Rancher server and agent nodes, with features that<br \/>\ninclude:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Static inventory<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic inventory via EC2 tags<\/li>\n<li>Detection of multiple servers and automatic configuration of HA<\/li>\n<li>Support for local, bind-mount, and external databases<\/li>\n<li>Optional, local HAProxy with SSL termination for single-server<br \/>\ndeployments<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.ansible.com\/ansible\/latest\/playbooks_vault.html\">Ansible Vault\u00a0<\/a>for secure storage of secrets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This first release is for Ubuntu and Debian, and it targets EC2 as a<br \/>\nprovider. Upcoming releases will support yum-based systems (RHEL,<br \/>\nCentOS, and Fedora) and will add support for other providers for whom<br \/>\ndynamic inventory modules exist. To get started, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rancher\/ansible-playbooks\">Ansible<br \/>\nplaybooks repository<\/a> on GitHub. There you will find instructions for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rancher\/ansible-playbooks\/blob\/master\/INSTALL.md\">general<br \/>\ninstallation\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rancher\/ansible-playbooks\/blob\/master\/INSTALL_EC2.md\">setting up EC2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rancher.com\/create-rancher-environments-quickly-ansible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention, Ansible users! We\u2019ve released the first version of our Ansible playbooks for Rancher. Ansible is a configuration management system that allows you to write instruction manuals it uses to manage local and remote systems. These playbooks give full control over the installation and configuration of Rancher server and agent nodes, with features that include: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/2018\/11\/18\/create-rancher-environments-with-ansible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Create Rancher Environments with Ansible&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kubernetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}