Feb 20, 2014 - Issue 20

Articles

Ansible Vault Allows Keeping Encrypted Data in Playbooks
by Michael DeHaan

Ansible & Docker bringing back Simplicity & Power
by Amin Jams

Ansible Playbooks for Drupal 8 Testing and Mac Dev
by Jeff Geerling

First Steps with Ansible
by Roland Wolters

Working with Ansible
by Drew Wilson

Automating Apache Cloudstack Deployments with Ansible
by Antone Heyward

How to Deploy Rails Applications Using Ansible and Mina
by Vexor

Demonstration of Ansible Features with Control & Test VMs
by Jakub Holy

Slides

Laravel in your Pocket
by Paulus Esterhazy

From Ansible, Inc.

New: Academic Pricing for Ansible Software Subscriptions

Upcoming in Ansible

• all ec2 modules that work with Eucalyptus also now support a validate_certs option, which can be set to 'off' for installations using self-signed certs.
• assert module adds some optional syntactic sugar to existing capabilities. assert: { that: "foo != bar" }
• new cloud module: docker_image

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

Events

North America

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

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

Europe

Feb 27, Oslo, Norway > Responsible with Ansible

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

Feb 27, Göteborg, Sweden > Get to Know Everyone

March 3, Bournemouth, UK > PHP Dorset March Meetup

March 12, Bergen, Norway > Responsible with Ansible

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

Australia

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

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