May 1, 2014 - Issue 30

"Unexpectedly good Thursday - Ansible IRC just passed 700 users and GitHub just passed 700 contributors."
@laserllama

Articles

Orchestration, You Keep Using that Word
by Michael DeHaan

Devops with Magento and Ansible. The Right Way
by Piotr Karwatka

Fun Read

Docker Misconceptions and When to Use It in Production
HN comment by Matt Jaynes (me) - more complete article in the works...

Video

Michael DeHaan on Ansible #PyCon2014 (4 min)
posted by Savoir-faire Linux

Jan-Piet Mens - Config Management with Ansible (1 hour)
posted by Netway (slides)

Slides

Ansible (PyCON 2014, Montreal)
by Michael DeHaan

DevOps in the Enterprise: Our Experiences at HERE/Nokia
by Alex Schwartz

Ansible Updates

• The get_url module now accepts url_username and url_password as parameters, so sites which require authentication no longer need to have them embedded in the url

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

Events

Ansible, Inc.

Speakers have been announced for AnsibleFest - quite a lineup!

May 20, New York, NY > AnsibleFest NYC 2014

North America

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

May 5, Montreal, QC > DevOps-Montreal

May 9, Orem, UT > OpenWest: Dominate Your Systems Universe with Ansible

May 19, New York, NY > Achieving Zero Downtime Rolling Updates with Ansible

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

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

May 22, Durham, NC > TriPython: Ansible

May 29-30, Pittsburgh, PA > DevOpsDays Pittsburgh n'at!

June 3, Seattle, WA > Lightning Talks - Ansible + GCE Demo

June 19, Reston, VA, > Ansible Configuration Management

Europe

May 22, Madrid, Spain > Charla de Mayo 2014: "Introducción a Ansible"

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

Cowsay

Via stick

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