September 4, 2014 - Issue 48
Articles
Techniques for Versioning Ansible II (also see Part I)
by Will Thames
Ansible & Windows - Running a Basic Installer
by Damon Overboe
Ansible & Windows - Timeouts, Stack Overflows, Out of Memory
by Damon Overboe
Create Ansible Playbook on GitHub to Build Mesos Clusters
by Frank Hinek
Waiting for SSH
by Craig Marvelley
Community Code
Huge contribution of debian-based roles to Galaxy by DebOps (Maciej Delmanowski and friends - formerly the ginas project).
These are very new, but they're actively writing up some introductory content explaining the roles and related tools.
- Galaxy Roles
- Github Repos
- debops.org
- 'test-runner' (how they're testing their roles)
Fun Read
YAML Best Practices for Ansible Playbooks - Tasks
(a follow-up post on the recent YAML Formatting Best Practices - Tasks with Many Params discussion)
by Server Check.in
Slides
Development with Ansible & VMs
by Jeff Schenck
Ansible & Cumulus Networks - Simplify Network Automation
by Cumulus Networks
Hello Ansible: A Story about Infrastructure Agility
by Baraa Basata (behind email-wall / with 53 min audio)
Ansible Updates
Some of Our Favorite Ansible Galaxy Content
by Dan London
1.8 "Everybody Wants Some" - Active Deployment
New modules:
net_infrastructure:a10_server- manages server objects on A10 devicesnet_infrastructure:a10_service_group- manages service group objects on A10 devicesnet_infrastructure:a10_virtual_server- manages virtual server objects on A10 devices
For more details, see the CHANGELOG.
Events
Ansible, Inc.
October 14, San Francisco, CA > AnsibleFest 2014 San Francisco
On-Line Events
September 22, On-Line Webinar > Cumulus Networks + Ansible Webinar
North America
September 8, Austin, TX > Ansible Tech Talk & QA Perspective on DevOps Panel
September 16, New York, NY > Ansible workshop
September 16, San Francisco, CA > Kafka in production + config with Ansible
September 18, Chicago, IL > DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Monitor-driven infrastructure Development using Ansible
September 24, Austin, TX > Ansible Hackathon
September 24, Arlington, VA > Configuration Management and Application Deployments with Ansible
September 25, Durham, NC > TriPython September 2014 Meeting: Ansible
October 1, Poughkeepsie, NY > Ansible
Europe
September 8, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Ansible Amsterdam: Getting acquainted
September 11, London, UK > Inaugural London Ansible Meetup
September 16, Paris, France > First Ansible-Paris Meetup with Michael DeHaan
September 16, Leeds, UK > LeedsDevops: September 2014 Meetup
September 25, Lindon, UK > Boost Your Ruby Stack's Signal with Ansible
September 25, Osimo, Italy > Automation night
October 4-5, Zagreb, Croatia > WebCamp Zagreb 2014: Ansible, just orchestrate it
October 23, Helsinki, Finland > 3rd OpenStackFin User Group meetup
November 10–12, Mannheim, Germany > Continuous Lifecycle 2014: Automatisieren mit Ansible
East Asia
September 22, Tokyo, Japan > Ansible Meetup
New Zealand
September 12–14, Wellington, New Zealand > Kiwi PyCon 2014: Deploying test and production systems with Ansible
Cowsay
Via Bart Spaans
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