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Get Oracle XE-ORDS-APEX Up and Running Quickly with Ansible

Oracle APEX is a rapid application development tool and from what I have seen its quite powerful. Clubed together with ORDS, it is a powerful tool to develop enterprise applications which are highly scalable.
I wrote an ansible playbook, which will quickly setup the entire stack. Read to find more. Continue reading

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Ansible Quirks – 4

I was installing ansible on OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 machine and faced a problem with multiple python versions. I have both python 2.7 and python 3.4 installed on this machine. Python 2.7 is the default one. I tried installed ansible with … Continue reading

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Ansible Quirks – 3

I was running some playbook today and realise that the command line arguments of ansible-playbook do not behaves expected. My playbook has the following defined – remote_user: root When I issued the following command, my expectation was that the remote … Continue reading

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Ansible Quirks – 2

Today I tried to upgrade my ansible to 2.2 as I wanted to use the remote_src=yes feature from the unarchive module. My operating system on this machine is Linux Mint 17.3. I did – $ pip install –upgrade –user ansible … Continue reading

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Ansible Quirks – 1

I started on the ansible learning path about 6 months or so back and have been writing my roles for deploying / configuring various systems I manage. Today while writing a template for sshd_config, I came across a point wherein … Continue reading

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