Integrate ServiceNow and Ansible Tower in 10 minutes

Call an Ansible Tower Job Teamplate with custom extra vars via ServiceNow catalog item... in 10 minutes!

JR Morgan

5 minute read

A coworker asked about showcasing Ansible Tower, specifically integration between Ansible Tower and ServiceNow. With minimal exposure to ServiceNow, minus operatione as a requestor, this took a bit of time but far less than expected. Before starting make sure you have all prerequisites.

CI/CD Hosting on the Cheap: Part I

Low- or no-cost hosting for your startup

JR Morgan

2 minute read

Hosting costs have come down a lot, but cheap and expensive providers alike require administration using pretty lame cPanel hosting controls. Sure, you could run your own instance on AWS, GCE, or Azure, but then you’re introducing the overhead of patching, monitoring, and cost analysis – that last one is paticularly important if your site starts receiving increased traffic. If you can replace your commercial hosting provider with a combination of free solutions, why wouldn’t…

Common OpenShift Pitfalls

So many moving parts... So many opportunities for failure.

JR Morgan

4 minute read

I recently had a customer inquire about the most common issues I’ve run into with OpenShift deployments, operations, and upgrades. This was a great question and justified a writeup!