March 13, 2014 - Issue 23

Was hoping to have some content from last week's mini-fest in Austin. Unfortunately there were no submissions of content and the only thing I could find was a non-functional slideshow. Sorry guys, looks like meatspace didn't make it to cyberspace this time :-/

Regardless of that, there's some really great articles this week :-)

Articles

Ansible Cheat Sheet
by Roland Wolters

Easy Setup of your Own Heroku Clone with Ansible and Dokku
by Markus Amalthea Magnuson

Test Ansible roles with Travis CI
by René Moser

Network Config Templating using Ansible, Part2
by Kirk Byers

Using Ansible Galaxy
by Jeff Geerling

Ansible Provisioner for Aminator
by Peter Sankauskas

Better Handling of Public SSH Keys using Ansible
by broken

For Newbies

Intro to Ansible
by James W Thorne

First Steps with Vagrant, Ansible and AWS
by James Da Costa

Video

Vagrant + Ansible
by Michael Heap

Ansible Updates

Ansible 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 Released: Security and Bug Fixes

• Force command action to not be executed by the shell unless specifically enabled.
• Validate SSL certs accessed through urllib*.
• Implement new default cipher class AES256 in ansible-vault.

For details on the 1.6 "And the Cradle Will Rock" release, see the CHANGELOG.

Events

Africa

March 15, Nairobi, Kenya > DevOpsDays Africa

North America

March 20, Durham, NC > Ansible User Meetup

March 26, Arlington, VA > Improving the Un-automatable: Making Manual Build Steps More Efficient

May 3,New Brunswick, NJ > Using Ansible to Fill the Gaps Left Over from Puppet and mCollective

May 21, Broomfield, CO > How Ansible Makes Automation Easy

May 21, Broomfield, CO > Why Docker + Ansible make Chef and Puppet 100% Unnecessary

June 19, Reston, VA, > Ansible Deployments

Europe

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

March 22, Saratov, Russia > March teachtalk

March 24, Paris, France > Python pour DevOps : Ansible & SaltStack

March 26, Carlisle, England > Ansible: Provisioning for Vagrant

June 30, Cologne, Germany > Virtuelle Umgebungen mit Vagrant, Docker und Ansible

Cowsay

Via Grant Means

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