June 12, 2014 - Issue 36
Articles
SSH Key Rotation with Ansible
by Jesse Keating
Human-Readable Ansible Playbook Log Output Using Callback Plugin
by Cliffano Subagio
Giving a Monkey a Loaded Gun
by Jason Edelman
Deploying a Consul Cluster in a VPC
by Matt Wright
Playgrounds with Vagrant and Ansible
by Jakob Westhoff
Bare Metal Hadoop Provisioning with Ansible and Cobbler
by GoDataDriven
Slides
Ansible - Crash course
by Simone Soldateschi
Video
DevOps for Humans: Ansible for Drupal Deployment Victory!
by Jeff Geerling (56 min)
Using Docker & Ansible by John Minnihan @Gluecon 2014
by Alan Shimel (32 min)
Simpler Re-Usable Juju Charms with Ansible
by Michael Nelson (42 min)
Fun Read
Docker Misconceptions
by Matt Jaynes
(you may have already seen this before - here it is in blog form)
Ansible Updates
1.7 "Summer Nights" New Modules:
- cloud:
azure
1.6.3 "And the Cradle Will Rock":
- Corrects a regression where handlers were run across all hosts, not just those that triggered the handler.
- Fixed a bug in which modules did not support properly moving a file atomically when su was in use.
- Fixed two bugs related to symlinks with directories when using the file module.
- Fixed a bug related to MySQL master replication syntax.
- Corrects a regression in the order of variable merging done by the internal runner code.
- Various other minor bug fixes.
For more details, see the CHANGELOG.
Events
Ansible, Inc.
June 24-26, Santa Clara, CA > Ansible Booth at O'Reilly Velocity
June 26, Online > Intro to Ansible Online Training
June 27-28, Mountain View, CA > Ansible at DevOps Days Silicon Valley
July 20-24, Portland, OR > Ansible @ OSCON 2014
North America
July 9, Seattle, WA > Lightning Talks - Ansible 101 The Basics
July 14, Grand Rapids, MI > Intro to Ansible
July 16, Mountain View, CA > Automating the Public Cloud Layer
June 18, New York, NY > Ansible at Lyrasis Digital
June 19, Reston, VA, > Ansible Configuration Management
June 25, Austin, TX > Ansible MeetUp
Europe
June 17, Birmingham, UK > Server Automation
June 19, Lausanne, Switzerland > Ansible - The Simple IT Automation Tool
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
July 2, Cardiff, UK > DevOps Meetup - Puppet Vs Chef Vs Ansible
Africa
June 19, Johannesburg, South Africa > Introduction to GoCD (feat. Ansible)
Cowsay
Via @ansible
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