June 19, 2014 - Issue 37

Articles

Anatomy of an Ansible Bug
by Scott Brown

6 Practices for Super Smooth Ansible Experience
by Maxim Chernyak

Ansible and Docker
by Patrick Galbraith

Blocking Distracting Websites with Ansible
by Jim Rybarski

Community Code

Using Ansible to Deploy a PuppetMaster
by Chris Livermore

Video

How Ansible Makes Automation Easy
by Peter Sankauskas (19 min)

Ansible + Docker Demonstration / Slides
by Patrick Galbraith (32 min)

Dominate Your Systems Universe with Ansible
by Daniel Hanks (51 min)

Automating & Validating OSPF Neighbors using Ansible
by Jason Edelman (15 min)

Fun Read

Back to the Future
by Greg DeKoenigsberg

For Beginners

A Glossary for Ansible
by Flux7Labs

Slides: An Introduction to Ansible
by Jake Clarkson

Ansible Updates

1.7 "Summer Nights" - Active Development

New inventory scripts:

• SoftLayer
• Windows Azure

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

October 2014, San Francisco, CA > AnsibleFest 2014 San Francisco

North America

June 25, Austin, TX > Ansible MeetUp

June 26, Saint Louis, MO > DevOps Monthly Meetup

June 26, Palo Alto, CA > Successfully Automating your Machines in the Cloud using Ansible

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

Europe

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

June 26, London, UK > DevOps Show and Tell

June 26, Barcelona, Spain > Python & DevOps

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

July 10, Sheffield City, UK > Implementing Ansible

Australia

July 1, Melbourne, Australia > Something something Agile / Ansible something (TBC)

Cowsay

Via @jskrablin

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