April 10, 2014 - Issue 27
From Ansible, Inc.
April 29th:
Official Online Training: Intro to Ansible
Ansible Tower 1.4.8: Scheduled Actions & Vault
by Michael DeHaan
Fixing Heartbleed with Ansible
by Michael DeHaan
Articles
Human-Readable Ansible Playbook Log Output using Callback Plugin
by Cliffano Subagio
Using Ansible to Set Up a Rails Deployment Environment
by Jesse Buchanan
How to Deploy Encrypted Copies of your SSL Keys and other Files
by Jonathan Calazan
Ceph Maintenance with Ansible
by Sebastien Han
Using Virtualenv Python in Local Ansible
by Matt Behrens
Running Ansible on Windows
by Alan Chalmers
Lazy File Building with Ansible (for Dockerfiles)
by Ahti Kitsik
How do Your Servers Talk to You?
by Jan-Piet Mens
Community Code
Playbook to Patch OpenSSL
by Julien Dauphant
Video
Ansible Why and How I Use It
by Ton Kersten (slides)
Ansible Updates
New Modules:
aptmodule now accepts "deb" parameter to install local dpkg filesregex_replacefilter plugin
Other changes:
- added
version_comparefilter - added ability for module documentation YAML to utilize shared module snippets for common args
- Security fix for
safe_eval, which further hardens the checking of the evaluation function. - Changing order of variable precendence for system facts, to ensure that inventory variables take precedence over any facts that may be set on a host.
For details on the 1.6 "And the Cradle Will Rock" release, see the CHANGELOG.
Events
USA
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 19, New York, NY > Achieving Zero Downtime Rolling Updates 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
April 15, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK > PHPNE: Ansible for your Production Environment
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
Cowsay
Via Ollivier Robert
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