May 22, 2014 - Issue 33

AnsibleFest NYC 2014

Super talks from the fest this week - special thanks to those who posted slides, videos, articles so those who couldn't make it this time can still benefit!

Ansible Text Message Notifications with Twilio SMS
by Matt Makai (slides)

Video: How Twitter Uses Ansible
by Steve Salevan (41 min)

Slides: Ansible and Google Cloud Platform
by Eric Johnson

Slides: How edX Uses Ansible
by John Jarvis

Slides: Monitor-Driven Development Using Ansible
by Itamar Hassin

Slides: Docker and Ansible
by Patrick Galbraith

Slides: Ransack, an Application Built on Ansible's API for Rackspace
by Paul Durivage

Ansible Unveils Ansible Tower 2.0 at AnsibleFest NYC 2014
by Rob Marvin

AnsibleFest: Ransack, a Rackspace App Built on the Ansible API
by Rob Marvin

Articles

Multistage Environments with Ansible
by Ross Tuck

Vagrant and Ansible on Windows Hosts
by Jaime Metcher

Slides

Gluecon: How Ansible Makes Automation Easy
by Peter Sankauskas

Ansible + Docker Make Chef and Puppet 100% Unnecessary
by John Minnihan

Hostnames Suck, or Managing EC2 Servers with Ansible
by Lorin Hochstein

Video

Updated: Ansible Quick Start Video
by Ansible, Inc. (36 min)

Bootstrapping a Server with Ansible
by Ciaran Downey (21 min)

DEMO: Using Ansible for Network Automation
by Jason Edelman (9 min)

Taming OpenStack with Ansible
by John Dewey (36 min)

Ansible Updates

1.7 "Summer Nights" - Active Development

Ansible 1.6 recently released. To see the full list of features, fixes, etc, see the CHANGELOG.

Events

North America

May 22, Durham, NC > TriPython: Ansible

May 28, Austin, TX > Discuss Ansible

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

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

June 3, Saint Louis, MO > James Cammarata on Ansible

June 5, Austin, TX > Ansible for Drupal Deployment Victory!

June 19, Reston, VA, > Ansible Configuration Management

Europe

June 10, Amersfoort, Netherlands > PHPAmersfoort June 2014 Meetup

June 19, Lausanne, Switzerland > René Moser on Ansible

June 26, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Ansible: Orchestrate your Infrastructure

June 27, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Ansible: Orchestrate your Infrastructure

June 30, Cologne, Germany > Virtuelle Umgebungen mit Vagrant, Docker und Ansible

Cowsay

Via sdotsen

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