October 2, 2014 - Issue 52
Ansible Weekly just had its 1-year anniversary!
Some stats for anyone interested:
- Subscribers: ~1500
- Average opened per issue: ~58%
- Average clicked per issue: ~49%
- Collection time per issue: ~4 hours (thanks Sergey!)
- Editing time per issue: ~1 hour
That's about 260 man hours this year! It's been a great side-project to keep up with the community and share what's new :) Thanks especially to those who sent in articles, events, etc!
As my interests evolve, I'm spending more and more time with tools that complement Ansible, but aren't directly related (Terraform, Docker, Monit, etc), so I'm thinking of expanding the scope of the newsletter to include sections on other excellent system tools. If I do this, the name would change from "Ansible Weekly" to something more broad and I'd have separate sections for the different tools. The 'Events' section rarely gets even a single click, so I'll likely discontinue that.
I'd love to continue providing a useful newsletter, but need to evolve it so that it's worth the time investment every week. Fortunately, Ansible Inc has hired a ton of great folks this year and is providing more and more resources around Ansible events and announcements, so you can find those resources through them.
Any helpful suggestions are welcome! I can't promise anything, but if there's a consensus towards a certain direction, I'll consider including it. My goal is to include only the most interesting and useful content, and I think this direction will help me do that better.
Thanks!
Matt
Articles
Quick Ref: Ansible Parameters and Special Variables
by Lorin Hochstein
Official Ansible Content on Docker Hub
by Michael DeHaan
Update Hosts via Ansible to Mitigate bash "Shellshock" Vulnerability
by Alan Orth
Installing NodeRed using Ansible
by Oliver Smith
Getting Started with Ansible-Oracle
by Mikael Sandström
How We Use AWS, Ansible, and Packer to Make Deployment Awesome
by Dmitri Gaskin
For Beginners
Ansible Quick Start - A Brief Introduction
by Ryan Eschinger
Ansible Updates
1.8 "Everybody Wants Some" - Active Deployment
Notable changes:
- async jobs started in "fire & forget" mode can now be checked on at a later time
- can set
ansible_sudo_exeas an inventory variable which allows specifying a different sudo (or equivalent) command
For more details, see the CHANGELOG.
Events
Ansible, Inc.
October 14, San Francisco, CA > AnsibleFest 2014 San Francisco
Also see the Interactive map of Ansible events
North America
October 7, Los Angeles, CA > Breaking up with your datacenter (and moving to AWS)
October 11, Corvallis, OR > DevOps DayCamp
October 13, Fort Collins, CO > Throwdown: Ansible vs. Salt
October 15, Los Angeles, CA > Kickoff meeting
November 22–23, Toronto, Canada > Scaling EventMobi: From Monolithic PHP to Distributed Python Microservice Architecture
October 23, San Francisco, CA > Configuration Management and Orchestration for AWS: Salt or Ansible
October 25, Seattle, WA > Seattle GNU/Linux Conference: Getting things done with Ansible
October 29, Austin, TX > Ansible Meetup
Europe
October 4-5, Zagreb, Croatia > WebCamp Zagreb 2014: Ansible, just orchestrate it
October 6 Copenhagen, Denmark > 7th meetup
October 17, Bordeaux, France > [CONF] RUN | PROVISION | DEPLOY - Your Workstation in Production
October 22, Cork, Ireland > Kickoff meeting
October 23, Helsinki, Finland > 3rd OpenStackFin User Group meetup
October 29, Helsinki, Finland > Hello Ansible
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 Jason Staten
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