Ascender Pro videos
Ascender Pro is CIQ's Ansible-based automation platform, with Ascender Ledger Pro for auditing and alerting. Watch quick starts, playbook tutorials, migration jobs, network automation, and Proxmox and VMware administration walkthroughs.
How to stop config drift across a hardened Linux fleet
Drift belongs on a racetrack, not in your Linux fleet — especially when security is the driver. You harden a server to a STIG, CIS, or NIST 800-171 baseline, sign off, and move on. Then it drifts…
How to run your whole Ansible lifecycle on one platform
Running Ansible at scale used to mean building a stack by hand: a controller, an event layer, an audit trail, a content hub, then owning every seam between them. Those seams are where integration…
RLC-H & Ascender Pro: How to Deploy Consistent Secure Linux With Ease
Deploy Fast AND Secure: Stop Choosing Between Speed and Security Enterprise teams are stuck with an impossible choice: slow deployments with manual hardening, or fast deployments with security risks…
Apache install playbook creation & launch: speedrun
Greg Sowell sets a two-minute timer and races to write an Ansible playbook from scratch that installs and enables Apache on a Rocky Linux 9 host, then commits it to Git and launches it from Ascender…
Service troubleshooting with Ascender Ledger Pro
Greg Sowell shows how Ascender Ledger Pro turns the flood of log data produced by AWX-derived platforms, including Ascender, Ansible Automation Platform, and Tower, into something you can actually…
Package alerting with Ascender Ledger Pro
Greg Sowell demonstrates the Packages section of Ascender Ledger Pro, which collects gather-facts, gather-services, and gather-packages output from any AWX derivative, including Ascender, AWX, Ansible…
Troubleshoot stale DNS with Ascender Ledger Pro
Greg Sowell uses Ascender Ledger Pro to answer a common question during a DNS server migration: which hosts are still pointing at the old resolvers? Ledger Pro pulls logs from AWX and its derivatives…
Using nested loops in Ansible
Greg Sowell explains why Ansible does not let you nest a loop directly inside another loop, and walks through the standard workaround: loop over a list while calling include_tasks, and put the second…
Ansible list slicing and extended loop controls
Greg Sowell shares two Ansible looping tricks he found while digging for content: list slicing and extended loop controls. Working from a simple playbook with a five-item list, he shows how the…
Constructed inventories in Ascender and AWX
Greg Sowell walks through constructed inventories, a newer feature in Ascender and AWX that builds a new inventory from one or more existing ones using filters. He starts with two source inventories…
Fuzzball-Ansible deployment with Ascender
In this live webinar, CIQ's Jonathon joins Rose and Zane to show how the open source fuzzball-ansible collection automates deploying Fuzzball, CIQ's HPC provisioning, resource management, and…
Building playbooks via GitHub Copilot
Greg Sowell steps away from CIQ products to show how GitHub Copilot inside VS Code can get newcomers writing Ansible playbooks quickly. Typing a task name such as install Apache on Rocky Linux prompts…
Ascender Pro shorts
Quick clips under a minute from the same playlist. These open on YouTube.
Terms that come up in these videos
Definitions from the CIQ glossary for the concepts these sessions lean on.