Re: [PLUG] If you decided to use ansible you obviously made a good choice

["Gavin W. Burris" <bug@wharton.upenn.edu>]

Hi, Rachel.

Hrm, Malvern.  Maybe we can host a PLUG here in actual West Philly, on Penn's campus.

Cheers.

On Fri 10/16/15 11:47AM EDT, Rachel Rawlings wrote:
> Gavin,
> 
>   I did ansible talks at Central and North but I'd be very happy to let you
> do West so people can get another take on it and because I don't really
> like going out to Malvern. :)
> On Oct 16, 2015 9:02 AM, "Gavin W. Burris" <bug@wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, All.
> >
> > I'd be happy to present about Ansible at an upcoming PLUG West.  We've
> > been using it for over a year now to automate deployment of our
> > high-performance computing cluster at Wharton.
> >
> > Ansible is configuration management.  Imagine booting a server,
> > workstation or cloud node, then having it configured exactly as the role
> > you require.  Imagine doing that as often as you like, with something that
> > was as easy as having Python, some text files and an SSH key.  Minimum
> > overhead and maximum utility.  This provides you with automatic
> > installations, disaster recovery, checks for known-good state, and
> > documentation.  It's no joke that Ansible code is so easy to read it is
> > like documentation.  All of my systems are defined by code in a git repo.
> > It's a beautiful thing.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > On Fri 10/16/15 08:43AM EDT, Ronaldo Nascimento wrote:
> > > What is it exactly? Too many buzz words on the site. How will it effect
> > the SAT server?
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Oct 16, 2015, at 8:34 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Been using it for a couple of years now. Love it.
> > > >
> > > > Now RedHat needs to make Spacewalk/Satellite use it out of the box.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Doug Stewart
> > > >
> > > > On Oct 16, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Anthony Martin <
> > anthony.j.martin142@gmail.com <mailto:anthony.j.martin142@gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/why-red-hat-acquired-ansible <
> > http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/why-red-hat-acquired-ansible>
> > > >>
> > > >> Red Hat will be using ansible. I personally think this is a good idea
> > and much better than puppet for satellite.
> > > >>
> > > >> Anthony MartinLinux System Administrator
> > > >>
> > > >> (M) 609-410-1168
> > > >> anthony.j.martin142@gmail.com <mailto:anthony.j.martin142@gmail.com
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Gavin W. Burris
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The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
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