Oct 31, 2013 - Issue 6

One of the things that led me to Ansible was the smooth experience I had with the documentation compared to other tools. I've written a bit about how to keep documentation great here: Your Docs are a Minefield. Kudos to the Ansible team for such a great focus on the docs!

Articles

Hands on Ansible Tutorial - Session Notes
By Dhananjay Nene

Troubleshooting SSH Connections in Ansible
By Stephen Gargan

Collecting LXC Resource Usage Using Ansible & collectd
By Darren Worrall

Slides

Ansible with Google
Slides from Eric's talk last week at AnsibleFest. By Eric Johnson

Upcoming in Ansible

• Increased/easier code sharing between modules
  
• Name of executable can be passed to pip/gem etc, for installing under different interpreters
  
• Copy of ./hacking/env-setup added for fish shell users, ./hacking/env-setup.fish
  
• Copy/accelerate modules improved
  

For more on the features upcoming in the 1.4 "Could This Be Magic" release, see the devel branch's CHANGELOG.

Community Code

NetflixOSS Asgard Ansible Playbook and AMI
"Asgard is an application deployments and cloud management web interface for AWS." By Peter Sankauskas

Keybits Server
Very early project, but worth checking out. Sets up Ghost blog and Piwik analytics. By Tom Atkins

AnsibleWorks

AnsibleWorks Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program
By Lisa Sheeran

Events

Nov 3, Washington DC > LISA

Nov 4-5, Portland OR > DevOpsDays

Nov 5, Washington DC > DevOps DC Meetup

Nov 12, Las Vegas > AWS re:Invent

Cowsay

"Ansible's blowing my tiny little mind, and I thought I'd run out of fuses years ago!" -Sheldon Hearn (@sheldonh)

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Happy Halloween! Cow is dressed as a dragon this week for the holiday :)