4 posts tagged with "Ansible"

Service Account Overview​

In the realm of Production system maintenance and risk reduction, service password management stands as a critical yet traditionally manual process. Regulatory requirements, like NERC, often mandate password rotation, while cyber policies seek to fortify the digital environment. For complex systems like AVEVA PI Server or SCADA integrations, the manual effort involved in logging into servers, coordinating downtime, and ensuring system stability post-rotation can be an all-day event. Enter automation tools, streamlining coordination and minimizing the code required for these processes.

Automation Overview​

Managing SSL certificates across dozens of PI Vision and PI Web API servers can be a complex and error-prone process. This blog post explores a comprehensive approach to automate SSL certificate provisioning and deployment using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines, specifically focusing on AWS Private CA and ACM for certificate management.

Deploying SSL certificates is a critical yet challenging aspect of managing secure connections across multiple servers. Manual processes can be prone to errors and time-consuming. Automation becomes essential to streamline the deployment, rotation, and overall management of SSL certificates. In this context, we'll delve into leveraging the power of AWS ACM along with Terraform and Ansible for an efficient and automated solution.

Configuration Management Overview​

In the sphere of industrial automation and data management, precision, efficiency, and reliability reign supreme. AVEVA PI System stands tall as a vital cog in managing operational data, ensuring peak performance across diverse industries. To fortify and streamline this system, the integration of Configuration Management emerges as a game-changer.

While numerous tools exist for Configuration Management—Salt, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible—we'll focus on the myriad benefits that integrating Ansible brings to the fore in this article.

Welcome to Mainely Innovations​

We are dedicated to providing solutions that extend the capabilities of the AVEVA / OSIsoft PI ecosystem. Our goal is to enable open-source development of PI Vision custom symbols and scripts to help automate common and even less routine tasks required for the administration of the PI system.

We believe that there is a lot of flexibility in extending the base layer of the PI System and that providing common functionality to consumers of PI is valuable. That's why we want to make these common tasks and basic PI Vision extensibility open-source, as there is minimal value in paying for these services and the functionality should be usable by the consumers of the PI System.