April 3, 2014 - Issue 26

Fun Read

Living with the GitHub Issue Tracker
by Michael DeHaan

Articles

Modelling Credentials Configuration in Ansible
by Will Thames

How to Write an Ansible Role for Ansible Galaxy
by Alex Wilson

Network Test Automation with Ansible
by Jason Edelman

Using Vagrant to Test Ansible Roles
by René Moser

Building VM Images with Ansible and Packer
by Jeff Geerling

Deployment of Symfony2 Applications with Ansible
by Pablo Godel

Ansible Fix Colon Syntax Error for sudoers File
by James W Thorne

Resolution of Ansible Issues on OS X Mavericks
by Sawant Shah

Community Code

Sovereign Users: Easy VPN setup now for iOS/Android
by Joshua Lund

From April Fools

Ansible Me a Sandwich
by Michael DeHaan

Ansible Updates

Ansible 1.5.4 Security Update
by Michael DeHaan

New Modules:

• cloud: rax_cbs (cloud block storage)
• cloud: rax_cbs_attachments
• net_infrastructure: dnssimple
• net_infrastructure: lldp
• notification: sns (Amazon)
• monitoring: logentries
• monitoring: rollbar_deployment
• monitoring: librato_annotation
• packaging: layman
• webinfrastructure: `apache2module`

Other Changes:

• synchronize module sets relative dirs based on inventory or role path
• apt module now accepts "deb" parameter to install local dpkg files
• regex_replace filter plugin added
• the ec2_key module now has wait/wait_timeout parameters

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

April 10, Denver, CO > How to Manage your CentOS Infrastructure with Ansible

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

May 9, Orem, UT > OpenWest 2014 Conference: Dominate your systems universe with Ansible

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

Canada

April 11, Montreal > Ansible - Python-Powered Radically Simple IT Automation

April 12, Montreal > Upgrade your Web Development Toolchain

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 > Vagrant and Ansible, Oauth, and a Quick Peek at PHP 5.6

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