Rich Mingin (PLUG) on 16 Oct 2015 10:10:26 -0700


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

If I can walk from 12th and Chestnut to USP on a whim to attend PLUG Central, you really can't make a case for not coming from UPenn. The seats in the presentation hall weren't as nice as the ones I'm used to at PLUG North, though.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Gavin W. Burris <bug@wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:
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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