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DevOps started out as "Agile Systems Administration". In 2008, at the Agile Conference in Toronto, Andrew Shafer posted an offer to moderate an ad hoc "Birds of a Feather" meeting to discuss the topic of "Agile Infrastructure". Only one person showed up to discuss the topic: Patrick Debois. Their discussions and sharing of ideas with others advanced the concept of "agile systems administration". Debois and Shafer formed an Agile Systems Administrator group on Google, with limited success. Patrick Debois did a presentation called "Infrastructure and Operations" addressing

HOWTO: Installing Vault On an AWS Ubuntu EC2 server

This is quick howto for installing vault on AWS Linux, mostly to remind myself. At the end of this tutorial, you'll have a working vault server, using s3 for the backend, self signed certificates for tls, and supervisord to ensure that the vault server is always running, and starts on reboot.

Setting up S3

First things first, let's set up an s3 bucket to use as the storage backend for our s3 instance.

From the AWS Mangement Console, go to the S3 console.
Click on the Create Bucket button

An Ansible summary

Jon Warbrick, July 2014, V3.2 (for Ansible 1.7)

Configuration file

intro_configuration.html

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HOWTO: Installing Vault On AWS Linux

This is quick howto for installing vault on AWS Linux, mostly to remind myself. At the end of this tutorial, you'll have a working vault server, using s3 for the backend, self signed certificates for tls, and supervisord to ensure that the vault server is always running, and starts on reboot.

Setting up S3

First things first, let's set up an s3 bucket to use as the storage backend for our s3 instance.

From the AWS Mangement Console, go to the S3 console.
Click on the Create Bucket button

    Help()
    AdminApp.help()
    AdminConfig.help()
    AdminControl.help()

List some servers:

AdminControl.queryNames('type=Server,cell='+cn+',node='+nn+',*')

	# start vault in dev mode
	VAULT_UI=true vault server -dev -dev-root-token-id="password"

	# write some secrets for our example usage
	curl --request POST \
	--silent \
	--header "X-Vault-Token: password" \
	--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{ "options": { "cas": 0 }, "data": { "username": "administrator", "password": "hunter2" } }' \
	http://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/secret/data/dev \| jq '.'

	- name: 'check if reboot is required'
	shell: if [ $(readlink -f /vmlinuz) != /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) ]; then echo 'yes'; else echo 'no'; fi
	ignore_errors: true
	register: reboot

	- name: 'reboot...'
	shell: nohup bash -c 'sleep 2 && shutdown -r now "Ansible kernel update applied"' &
	async: 0
	poll: 0
	ignore_errors: true

	#!/bin/sh

	echo Install all AppStore Apps at first!
	# If you are looking into a solution to automate AppStore installs,
	# check mas https://github.com/argon/mas
	# I installed XCode, Simplenote, Clocks, Stuffit Expander, Cloudapp, Forklift.
	read -p "Press any key to continue... " -n1 -s
	echo '\n'

	# Add this snippet to the top of your playbook.
	# It will install python2 if missing (but checks first so no expensive repeated apt updates)
	# gwillem@gmail.com

	- hosts: all
	gather_facts: False

	tasks:
	- name: install python 2
	raw: test -e /usr/bin/python \|\| (apt -y update && apt install -y python-minimal)

	# CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
	# Python 2.7.5
	# Ansible Version
	# 1.9.4
	# Ansible Installation Method
	# yum
	# Tower Version
	# 2.4.3
	# Troubleshooting: Ansible Tower - Cross-Origin Request Blocked (CentOS 7.2.1511 - Python 2.7.5)
	# Error messages: "Live events: error connecting to the Tower server." OR "Socket error: connection refused by host"