March 20, 2014 - Issue 24
From Ansible Inc:
AnsibleFest NYC registration is LIVE! Get 'em while they're hot! All day, May 20th... Happy Hour included!
Articles
Test Ansible roles with Travis CI
by René Moser
Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices
by Raphael Campardou
Ansible Layered Configuration for AWS
by Will Thames
Installing Ansible on a Fresh Mavericks System.
by Reece Fowell
Docker vs LXC/Ansible?
by Maciej Lasyk
etcd + ansible = crazy delicious
by Joseph Kordish
Salt vs. Ansible
by Jens Rantil
Compute Engine Management with Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible
by Matt Bookman
Slides
Automated Deployments with Ansible & Fabric
by Matt Makai
Slides and code from Juergen Brendel's talk about Ansible
by Juergen Brendel
Google Compute Engine and Ansible
by Sharif Salah
Ansible Updates
New modules:
- packaging: cpanm (Perl)
- packaging: composer (PHP)
- notification: nexmo (SMS)
- packaging: homebrew_tap (OS X)
- packaging: homebrew_cask (OS X)
- notification: twilio (SMS)
- netinfrastructure: `bigipfacts`
- system: alternatives
- notification: slack (Slack.com)
- notification: typetalk (Typetalk.in)
- cloud:
ec2_scaling_policy - cloud:
ec2_metricalarm - system: capabilities
Other changes:
- example callback plugin added for hipchat
- added example inventory plugin for doing really trivial inventory from SSH config files
- added example inventory plugin for vcenter/vsphere
- added 'gathering' param for ansible.cfg to change the default gather_facts policy.
For details on the 1.6 "And the Cradle Will Rock" release, see the CHANGELOG.
Events
North America
March 26, Arlington, VA > Hacking Your Build Process with Ansible
May 3,New Brunswick, NJ > Using Ansible to Fill the Gaps Left Over from Puppet and mCollective
May 20, New York, NY > AnsibleFest NYC 2014
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 Configuration Management
Europe
March 22, Saratov, Russia > March teachtalk
March 24, Paris, France > Python pour DevOps : Ansible & SaltStack
March 26, Carlisle, England > Ansible: Provisioning for Vagrant
May 22, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Ansible: Orchestrate your Infrastructure
June 26-27, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Ansible: Orchestrate your Infrastructure
June 30, Cologne, Germany > Virtuelle Umgebungen mit Vagrant, Docker und Ansible
Australia
March 27, Brisbane > 'Continuous Delivery Distilled' & 'CM RoundTable'
Cowsay
Via Ryan van Niekerk
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