DevOps

In Part 1, I built a small Ansible environment with one control node and two managed Ubuntu web servers. Then I decided to break and fix it. First, My Nodes Got Stuck At one point, my managed nodes were taking forever to restart in Multipass. They were stuck long enough that it was obvious something was wrong. Then I force-stopped them, deleted them and purged them. Then I recreated: node1 node2 with the same names. ...

Recently, my team was working on installing ArcGIS Pro on multiple machines. We got complaints from some users who couldn’t access the software because of licensing and permission issues, while other users had everything working smoothly. That situation got me thinking about configuration management. If we already had machines where ArcGIS Pro was installed and working in the state we wanted, how could we make sure the other machines were configured consistently instead of troubleshooting them one at a time? ...