Oct 17, 2013 - Issue 4
Events
Oct 22, San Francisco > AnsibleFest
Next week! There's still a little time to join the party :)
Oct 25, Vancouver > DevOps Days
Nov 3, Washington DC > LISA
Nov 12, Las Vegas > AWS re:Invent
Video
Ansible and AWS
Great walk-through of provisioning and working with AWS (14 minutes). By Peter Sankauskas
Articles
Scalable Provisioning with Ansible and Vagrant
By Julien Ponge
Deploying Rails with Ansible
By Yiorgos Adamopoulos
Changes in Ansible Variable Precedence Between v1.2 and v1.3
By Ryan Cook
Plain Text Based Configuration Files Management with Ansible
By Jaime Gago
Upcoming in Ansible
- New helpful tips for common errors. Watch for them in purple!
- md5 as a Jinja2 filter:
{{ path | md5 }} - fileglob filter:
with_items: "/foo/pattern/*.txt | fileglob" - Roles search path is now configurable: roles_path in ansible.cfg
- SSH ControlPath is now configurable in ansible.cfg
- "var=" option for the debug module to debug variable data:
- debug: var=variablename.foo
For more on the features upcoming in the 1.4 "Could This Be Magic" release, see the devel branch's CHANGELOG.
From AnsibleWorks
AWX now available on Amazon Marketplace
Community Code
NetflixOSS Ansible Playbooks
By Peter Sankauskas
Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and BitTornado
By Yamasaki Masahide
Install Minecraft Server on Ubuntu on Digital Ocean
By Raymond Yee
Ansible playbooks for CIS Benchmarks on RHEL/CentOS 6
By Major Hayden
A Digital Ocean specific provisioning and orchestration tool
By Gareth Rushgrove
Cowsay
Via Ben Scofield @bscofield
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