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Ansible Weekly, Issue 34

May 29, 2014

Taste Test: Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible

Taste Test book cover

This is the book that introduced me to Ansible and inspired Ansible Weekly. If you'd like help convincing your employer or others to use Ansible, this was the book to get. Ansible was the clear winner for usability, security, and more.


Articles

Testing Strategies
by Ansible, Inc.

Debugging Ansible for Fun and No Profit
by Will Thames

An Example of Provisioning and Deployment with Ansible
by Stavros Korokithakis

Using Ansible to Configure your Ruby App Servers and Deploy your Ruby Gems
by Jeroen Serpieters

The State of Ansible a Year after the Project's Creation
by Rob Marvin

Move Fast and Don't Break Things! Testing with Jenkins, Ansible and Docker
by Mike Muzurakis

Testing Ansible Roles with Travis CI on GitHub
by Server Check.in

Compile and Install Nagios with Ansible
by Patrick Ogenstad

Development Environments with Vagrant and Ansible
by Daniel Groves

Community Code

Ansible Inventory Grapher
by Will Thames

Video

DrupalCamp Finland 2014: Using Drupal with Ansible
by Janne Cederberg and Juho Viitasalo

Ansible Updates

Ansible 1.7 "Summer Nights" was in active development. Ansible 1.6 had recently released.

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