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Installing Filebeat in web application container

Posted on: 16 April 202316 April 2023Ansible , Docker , Elastic

Previously we have installed a Logstash instance on our ELK stack server. This time let’s focus on web application in Docker container and add Filebeat agent installation to container Dockerfile. […]

Installing Logstash utilising Ansible

Posted on: 15 April 202315 April 2023Ansible , Elastic

Logstash is the last of ELK stack components that we will be installing. It is used to processing pipelines, transforming and sending data from multiple sources. The installation process does […]

Installing Elasticsearch and Kibana using Ansible + templates

Posted on: 8 November 202210 November 2022Ansible , Elastic

Purpose of this post is to describe playbook utilising template files (in .j2 format) used to install and configure Elasticsearch and Kibana to run in a tandem. First, let’s have […]

Deploying Tomcat with sample web app in Docker container

Posted on: 25 October 202225 October 2022Ansible , Docker , Tomcat

In this post I would like to continue on the topic of deploying application server, but this time instead of just installing Docker, we will setup a Tomcat app server […]

Deploying HTTP server in Docker container

Posted on: 3 August 20223 August 2022Ansible , Docker , Httpd

In my last post I have configured on prem HTTP server, but it is easier to just containerise app and http servers, because this way one doesn’t need to worry […]

Configuring static content web server

Posted on: 27 July 202216 April 2023Ansible , Docker , Tomcat

In this post I will be presenting setup of a web server hosting example .html webpage. For this exercise I’ve chosen Apache Tomcat to be an HTML server serving the […]

Preparing application server

Posted on: 6 July 20226 July 2022Ansible , Docker

In this post I would like to present preparation of application server, mainly automation of Docker installation. We will need this software in next steps, when deploying and containerising web […]

Configuring management server

Posted on: 4 July 2022Ansible , Jenkins

It is time to configure management server, on which beside Ansible I would also like to have Jenkins. In the future I will use it to build CI/CD pipeline. In […]

Configuring base role

Posted on: 2 July 20222 July 2022Ansible

Now that management server is ready for action we can use it for first configuration task. In my last post I’ve prepared a private SSH key in which I am […]

Preparing management server

Posted on: 4 June 20224 June 2022Ansible , Architecture

In order to make managing servers in environment easier, and also make it possible to scale it let’s install Ansible on management server mgmt01. In addition, in this post I […]

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  • Installing Filebeat in web application container
  • Installing Logstash utilising Ansible
  • Installing Elasticsearch and Kibana using Ansible + templates
  • Deploying Tomcat with sample web app in Docker container
  • Deploying HTTP server in Docker container

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