Jan 9, 2014 - Issue 14
From AnsibleWorks
Find, reuse, and share Ansible roles with AnsibleWorks Galaxy.
New Guide for Rackspace Cloud.
Docs have a new style and change of location - now at http://docs.ansible.com.
Official twitter handle has changed from @AnsibleWorks to just @ansible.
Headquarters have a new office in the American Tobacco Center (a Google Tech Hub) in Durham, NC.
Articles
Quick Tip: Ansible Debugging
by Nigel Babu
Ansible - Playbook Testing
by Remy Van Elst
Meet Galaxy, a New Site for Ansible Geeks
by Barb Darrow
Deploying Rails Applications with Ansible
by Raphael Randschau
Copy Xen VMs With Ansible
by Aaron Hunter
Setting up cgit with Ansible
by Franck Cuny
Community Code
Ginas: It's Not a Server, It's an Entire Datacenter Defined in Ansible
by Maciej Delmanowski
Dogecoin Server Setup with Ansible
by Scott Motte
Building CloudStack RPMs with Ansible
by David Nalley
Events
Jan 14, San Francisco > Fully Automated Django Deployments with Ansible
Feb 3-4, Gent Belgium > Config Management Camp
New in Ansible
For 1.5:
when_foo
which was previously deprecated is now removed, usewhen
instead. Code generates appropriate error suggestion.include
+with_items
which was previously deprecated is now removed, ditto. Usewith_nested
orwith_together
, etc.only_if
, which is much older thanwhen_foo
and was deprecated, is similarly removed.ssh_alt
connection plugin, much more performant than standard -c ssh, in tree, soon to replace ssh.py (in this release)
For 1.4.4:
- Fixed a minor issue with newer versions of pip dropping the
use-mirrors
parameter.
For 1.4.3:
- Fixed
role_path
parsing from ansible.cfg - Fixed default role templates
Cowsay
Via Ryan Showalter @tankc
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