March 5, 2015 - Issue 55
Just in time for the weekend. Thanks again for all the great articles and tips - some great stuff in this issue :)
Cool Tips
Using Filters to Wrangle Registered Variables with Ansible
by Preston Marshall
Always Running Ansible Tasks
by Brian Brazil
Validate Ansible Templates!
by Jan-Piet Mens
Secrets with Ansible: Ansible Vault and GPG
by Vallard Benincosa
How do I Configure Environment Variables in Ansible
by Paulo Poiati
Check a Command's Return Codes to Determine Action
by Christoph Körner (original title "Install .deb Packages in Ansible")
Book Updates
Ansible for DevOps
by Jeff Geerling
Install / Manage Things
Setting up GlusterFS with Ansible
by Jeff Geerling
OSPF Lab Provisioning on IOS with Ansible
by Marius Cornea
Managing VMware vSphere Guests with Ansible Tower
by Mark Phillips
Securing a Server with Ansible
by Ryan Eschinger
Installing the Samba Server on Ubuntu using Ansible
by Arbab Nazar
Using Ansible to Deploy CloudStack
by Paul Angus (slides)
Network Nerds
Network Automation with Cisco Nexus Switches & Ansible
by Jason Edelman
Ansible, Cumulus, Dell & Nutanix: One Big Happy Family - Part 1
by Doug Youd
Programmatic Access to CLI Driven Devices with TextFSM
by Jason Edelman
For Beginners
Getting Started with Ansible
by Patrick Ogenstad
How to Automate Enterprise Application Monitoring with Ansible
by Martin Etmajer
Fun Read
How Ansible Scaled their Opensource Community
by Chris Ueland interview with MDH
Video
#vBrownBag: Getting Started with Ansible and vCenter
Also see the Examples
by Jonathan Frappier (~52 min)
How to automate Big Data with Ansible
by Marius Boeru (~32 min, from AnsibleFest London)
Ansible Updates
"We're going to be cutting the RC1 release for 1.9 next week..."
by James Cammarata
For more details, see the CHANGELOG.
Cowsay
via Curtis
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