August 14, 2014 - Issue 45

Articles

Building Docker Images with Ansible
by Victor Lin

Configuring a Multistage Environment with Ansible and Vagrant
by Erika Heidi

For Beginners

Play with Ansible with OSX and Vagrant
by Ahmet Yeşil

Slides

Testing with Docker, Ansible and Jenkins
by Mist.io

Video

Ansible and Google Compute Engine
by Eric Johnson, Brian Dorsey, and Michael DeHaan (~6 min)

Ansible Hands-On Training
by Glen Jarvis (1h 55 min)

Orchestration with Ansible at Fedora Project
by Aditya Patawari (~53 min)

Ansible Updates

1.8 "Everybody Wants Some"

New core features:

• fact caching support, pluggable, initially supports Redis (DOCS pending)
• 'serial' size in a rolling update can be specified as a percentage
• added new Jinja2 filters, 'min' and 'max' that take lists
• new 'ansible_version' variable available contains a dictionary of version info
• For ec2 dynamic inventory, ec2.ini can has various new configuration options
• 'ansible vault view filename.yml' opens filename.yml decrypted in a pager.
• no_log parameter now surpressess data from callbacks/output as well as syslog

New Modules:

• cloud: rax_cdb - manages Rackspace Cloud Database instances
• cloud: rax_cdb_database - manages Rackspace Cloud Databases
• cloud: rax_cdb_user - manages Rackspace Cloud Database users
• monitoring: zabbix_maintenance - handles outage windows with Zabbix
• monitoring: bigpanda - support for bigpanda
• system: getent - read getent databases

Some other notable changes:

• docker: Added support for specifying the net type of the container.
• docker: support for specifying read-only volumes.
• docker: support for specifying the API version to use for the remote connection.
• openstack modules: various improvements
• irc: ssl support for the notification module
• npm: fix flags passed to package installation
• windows: improved error handling
• setup: additional facts on System Z
• apt_repository: certificate validation can be disabled if requested
• pagerduty module: misc improvements
• ec2_lc: public_ip boolean configurable in launch configurations
• ec2_asg: fixes related to proper termination of an autoscaling group
• win_setup: total memory fact correction
• ec2_vol: ability to list existing volumes
• ec2: can set optimized flag
• various parser improvements
• produce a friendly error message if the SSH key is too permissive
• ec2_ami_search: support for SSD and IOPS provisioned EBS images

And various other bug fixes and improvements ...

For more details, see the CHANGELOG.

Events

Ansible, Inc.

October 14, San Francisco, CA > AnsibleFest 2014 San Francisco

North America

August 22, Orlando, FL > Day Camp 4 Developers: Virtualizing Development

August 27, Austin, TX > Ansible Meetup

September 2, Portland, OR > Development with Ansible and VMs

September 14, Wellington, New Zealand > Deploying test and production systems with Ansible

September 16, New York, NY > Ansible workshop

September 18, Chicago, IL > DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Monitor-driven infrastructure Development using Ansible

October 1, Poughkeepsie, NY > Ansible

Europe

August 18, Leeds, UK > Leeds PHP: Michael Heap on Vagrant and Ansible

September 8, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Ansible Amsterdam: Getting acquainted

September 11, London, UK > Inaugural London Ansible Meetup

October 14, Zagreb, Croatia > WebCamp Zagreb 2014: Ansible, just orchestrate it

November 10–12, Mannheim, Germany > Continuous Lifecycle 2014: Automatisieren mit Ansible

Cowsay

Via Matt Brender

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