Hi,
Has Anyone ever tried to install RSA IGL Using continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools like Jenkins, Ansible using DevOps Methodology. If Not, Can someone Confirm at least whether its possible with help of Scripting? installation & configuration
Hi Keshav,
Knowing a little bit of Ansible as from the list you've stated, how do you imagine involving Ansible in IG&L installation there? Is it moreover of a playbook that :
- loads installer files from an archive/storage server accordingly to destination directories
- installs dependencies when found missing and a re-try mechanism after that
- answers the installer questions and fills configuration prompts
- plays well when running on a group of hosts
- loads log files in certain directories upon fatal errors that needs further investigation
?
I've been looking at the past on what use cases Ansible or any other orchestrator might have potential to be done through automation, so any feedback would be highly appreciated there around the purpose of use.
Hey Ahmed,
The idea is somewhat similar to the use-cases you have listed. We wanted the entire deployment to be automated using Ansible Playbooks which would enable us to spin up, let's say Development or Test Environment very quickly.
Post which we can work on Playbooks for automatic Patch and Upgrade Deployments.
These were some of the basic use cases that we were partly able to achieve but, the ideal goal was,
Let's say we have integrated 3 complex Applications and 4 medium complexity Applications with RSA IGL, in our Development Environment. And in order to move them to Test Environment we need to copy the entire metadata to Test Environment or if we need to do partly, we have to manually export and import the XML Files to Test Environment.
I was looking to automate this step using Ansible Playbooks.
As in, to move the Code that we Develop to different Environments quickly without having to crudely exporting all the related XML's for a single Application every time.
Let me know your thoughts
Your use case is valid and interesting. I believe the limitation to your ultimate use case here is the IG&L API before being an orchestration problem. While the API can import application and workflow metadata, it cannot export.
Is there an option to import a dump from DEV to TEST that can be handled via the playbook?
With regards to IG&L application deployment, this would be also a good use case here. Frankly we don't have any supported playbooks for any orchestrators. I'd be very keen to see if you have any ansible playbooks written for IG&L.
Hey,
ive not heard of that im afraid and im not sure if it would be supported overall.
Aaron Beaudoin ?