Nov 7, 2013 - Issue 7
Articles
Your Dev Env with Vagrant and Ansible
By Juan Carlos Alonso
Deploying CloudStack With Ansible
By Paul Angus
Debug for the Winners!
By Fabian Arrotin
Slides
Ansible and AWS (slide 16+) (also see Peter's video on the subject)
By Peter Sankauskas
Upcoming in Ansible
- include_vars for dynamically loading variables based on conditions
- Vars in {{ format }} can be used as references even if they're structured data
- Multiple accelerate mode fixes
For more on the features upcoming in the 1.4 "Could This Be Magic" release, see the devel branch's CHANGELOG.
Community Code
Vagrant Splunk Box
Nice setup for using Splunk (log consolidation and data mining tool). By Mark Phillips
AWS CloudFormation Stack in Ubuntu
By James Martin
AnsibleWorks
Ansible 1.3.4 Released
Fixes a couple of issues:
- An error while pushing a 0-length file out when using accelerated mode
- An error in the copy module, when the filename contained the word "raw"
Events
Nov 12, Las Vegas > AWS re:Invent
Nov 13, San Francisco > Network Automation Using Ansible and Puppet
Cowsay
"Ansible is now officially easier for me than writing a shell script to manage a server. Casual devops folks should absolutely learn it." -Steve Streza (@SteveStreza)
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