Feb 6, 2014 - Issue 18

From @ansible: Ansible was the GitHub project with the 5th most contributors in 2013! Thanks to all 415 of you who contributed!

Articles

Configuring Arista Switches with Ansible, Part 3 of 3
by Kirk Byers

Writing and Testing Custom Ansible Libraries
by Raphael Randschau

Community Code

Generate /etc/hosts from Ansible Inventory
by Justin Garrison

Vlad - The Vagrant LAMP Ansible Drupal development box
by Philip Norton

Slides

Ansible Roles & Inventories
by Vincent Van der Kussen (note: use all arrow keys to navigate)

Ansible. Why and How I Use It
by Ton Kersten

Upcoming in Ansible

• play_hosts is a new magic variable to provide a list of hosts in scope for the current play. This may be useful for filling out templates with multiple hostnames or for injecting the list into the rules for a load balancer.

For details on the 1.5 "Love Walks In" release, see the CHANGELOG.

Events

North America

Feb 10, Boston, MA > Adventures with AWS, Ansible, and Vagrant

Feb 18, San Francisco, CA > Benchmarking, Autoscaling, Deployment Automation

Mar 6, Austin, TX > Ansible "Mini" Fest

Mar 12, Philadelphia, PA > Tools for Automating Modern Systems

Europe

Feb 10, London, UK > Docker & Ansible: The Path to Continuous Delivery

Feb 11, Dresden, Germany > Automation und Deployment

Feb 17, Brighton, UK > Vagrant and Ansible

Feb 27, Oslo, Norway > Responsible with Ansible

Feb 27, Lausanne, Switzerland > Ansible, FPM and Open-Space Talks

Mar 12, Exeter, UK > Using Ansible to Deploy Apps and Systems

March 18, Brighton, UK > Ansible Workshop: A hands-on session

Australia

Feb 11, Melbourne, Australia > Infracoders February Meetup

Feb 21, Sydney, Australia > Ansible - Your First Step into Server Provisioning

Cowsay

By mpdehaan

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