Ansible Weekly, Issue 1
September 26, 2013
Welcome, to the inaugural post of Ansible Weekly!
Events
Oct 3, Atlanta - DevOps Days
Oct 17-18, NYC - DevOps Days
Oct 22, San Francisco - AnsibleFest
Articles
Getting Started with Ansible on Digital Ocean
JP Richardson gives a simple tutorial on setting up Ansible.
First Five (and a Half) Minutes on a Server with Ansible
Matthew Smith demonstrates setting up basic security options on your server with Ansible.
On Ansible
Ben Scofield's first experience with Ansible.
Managing Research Computing Clusters with Ansible
Alan Orth shares the details on his more advanced Ansible setup.
Managing sshd with Ansible
Michael Lucas walks through setting up sshd and battling inconsistent artisan networks.
Why we chose Ansible over Puppet
Jeseem S discusses push and pull based configuration management tools.
Vagrant, Docker and Ansible. WTF?
Vincent Viallet gives an overview of the tools along with real-life examples.
Code
Sovereign - Alex Payne's Ansible playbooks for building and maintaining a personal cloud.
mazer-rackham - Joshua Lund's sample Ansible playbook for Rack applications.
From AnsibleWorks
New release: Ansible 1.3 Official Announcement
- Accelerated Mode
- Role Dependencies
- Role Defaults
Cowsay
In response to a cow concern from a new user:
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/ "export ANSIBLE_NOCOWS=1 if you don't \
\ like the cows" /
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
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