JBoss EAP Server Patching with Ansible Tower

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This video walks user through the steps involved in using Ansible Tower to automate the process of JBoss EAP server patching. • All relevant playbooks can be found at https://github.com/eanylin/ansible-la... • The video starts off by showing the existing environment with 2 VMWare ESXi hosts, JBoss EAP 6.4.8 server and Ansible Tower 3.4.0 cluster (Ansible Engine 2.7.5). We will make use of Ansible Tower to create a snapshot of the JBoss EAP VM before performing an upgrade from 6.4.8 to 6.4.9. The entire workflow will be driven by Ansible Tower. • • Detailed Workflow: • 1) The Application Engineer will log into the Ansible Tower. The dashboard UI shows the list of templates that were recently used. A check on the 'JBoss_App_Demo' project shows that it is making use of Git to retrieve the required playbooks. The inventory is empty initially, with VMWare vCenter as the dynamic inventory source. • 2) The engineer will start the inventory sync process to retrieve VM information from VMWare vCenter. Information of the 4 VMs in vCenter will get loaded into Ansible Tower and they will be grouped based on OS types. • 3) The engineer will proceed to execute the 'Patch_JBoss_EAP_Server' workflow. He/She will make use of the survey form to pass in all the required information, e.g. information of the datacenter, vm, snapshot, patch artifact name. Once all the information has been filled in, a preview window will pop up and he/she will review the information before hitting the launch button. • 4) Ansible tower will proceed to create the VM snapshot and patch the JBoss EAP server in a single workflow • 5) The engineer will check to verify that the JBoss EAP server was successfully upgraded from 6.4.8 GA to 6.4.9 GA and the application, i.e. app1 continues to function as normal

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