September 18, 2014 - Issue 50

Articles

Documenting your Ansible Roles Interface (and Making other People's Life Easier)
by Frédéric de Villamil

Ansible Tower: Building and Deploying AMIs to AutoScaling Groups
by James Martin

Automated Oracle RAC Installation using Ansible (part 1) (part 2)
by Mikael Sandström

Network Automation with Python, Ansible, and Twitter Integration
by Jason Edelman

Provisioning CoreOS with Ansible: Basic Setup
by Vincent Ambo

For Beginners

Using Ansible for Executing Oracle DBA Tasks
by Frits Hoogland

Ansible Updates

1.8 "Everybody Wants Some" - Active Deployment

Major changes:

• developers: 'baby JSON' in module responses, originally intended for writing modules in bash, is removed as a feature to simplify logic, script module remains available for running bash scripts.

Other notable changes:

• if a module should ever traceback, it will return a standard error, catchable by ignore_errors, versus an 'unreachable'
• added the ability to set "instance filters" in the ec2.ini to limit results from the inventory plugin.
• added a new "follow" parameter to the file and copy modules, which allows actions to be taken on the target of a symlink rather than the symlink itself.

For more details, see the CHANGELOG.

Events

Ansible, Inc.

October 14, San Francisco, CA > AnsibleFest 2014 San Francisco
See the speakers list

North America

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, Arlington, NE > Ansible

October 11, Corvallis, OR > DevOps DayCamp

October 13, Fort Collins, CO > Throwdown: Ansible vs. Salt

November 22–23, Toronto, Canada > Scaling EventMobi: From Monolithic PHP to Distributed Python Microservice Architecture

Europe

September 25, Lindon, UK > Boost Your Ruby Stack's Signal with Ansible

September 25, Osimo, Italy > Automation night

September 25, Berlin, Germany > CM Tools

September 29, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Ansible and Drupal

October 4-5, Zagreb, Croatia > WebCamp Zagreb 2014: Ansible, just orchestrate it

October 17, Bordeaux, France > [CONF] RUN | PROVISION | DEPLOY - Your Workstation in Production

October 23, Helsinki, Finland > 3rd OpenStackFin User Group meetup

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

November 20, Cardiff, United Kingdom > Unified Diff

Africa

October 22, Johannesburg, South Africa > Continuous Delivery with Ansible, Maven and Jenkins

Cowsay

Via Tomáš Ehrlich

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