March 27, 2014 - Issue 25
Ansible Weekly reaches 1000 subscribers today. About 50% of subscribers are in the US. About 5% each for France, UK, Italy, and Germany. Then the rest of you lovely people are spread out across Africa, Australia, South America, and Asia.
Speaking of Germany, my wife and I just bought one-way tickets to Berlin for early May, so I'll be based in Europe for the next year at least. Hope to meet some of y'all out there!
Fun Read
Dune, as an Allegory for Windows and Linux, and Why we Have 37 Package Managers
by Michael DeHaan
Articles
Listen to your Servers Talk
by Michael DeHaan
Ansible for Application Smoketests
by Joseph Kordish
What if Ansible Run Hangs?
by Walid Shaari
Spot Instances with Ansible
by Ian Pointer
Network Config Templating using Ansible, Part 3
by Kirk Byers
Ansible for Networking
by Jason Edelman
Swiftacular – Deploy OpenStack Swift with Ansible
by Curtis
An Ansible Primer
by Nathan Duthoit
Using Vagrant & Ansible to Automate Your Dev Env – Part 3
by Nguyen Quyen
Managing CloudFormation Stacks with Ansible
by Dean Wilson
Video
Ansible - Your First Step Into Server Provisioning
by Ben Turner
Insights into Ansible
by DevOps Africa
Ansible Updates
Accelerate improvements:
- multiple users can connect with different keys, when
accelerate_multi_key = yesis specified in the ansible.cfg. - daemon lifetime is now based on the time from the last activity, not the time from the daemon's launch.
New Modules:
- files: replace
- cloud:
ec2_metric_alarm
Other changes:
- ansible-playbook now accepts
--force-handlersto run handlers even if tasks result in failures
For details on the 1.6 "And the Cradle Will Rock" release, see the CHANGELOG.
Events
North America
April 10, Raleigh, NC > TriLUG April 10 Meeting: 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
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
April 15, Richmond > Apr 15 phpMelb: Vagrant and Ansible, Oauth, and a Quick Peek at PHP 5.6
Cowsay
Via TheMaxamillion
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