Infrastructure management with Ansible

A short introduction to Ansible for managing your infrastructure

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1. Infrastructure management with Ansible PyCon PL 2014 Bangalore Patrick Nsukami / @lemeteore / Freelance developer
2. About me ? Python developer System administrator (sometimes) Part of a small developers team Currently building a VOD platform
3. About Ansible ? Imagine automation in langage that approaches plain English, using SSH and without nothing to install on remote systems
4. About Ansible ? - Mutlinode orchestration framework - Written in Python (extensible in Python) - GPL3 licensed (with some exceptions) - Created by Michael DeHaan - An already great and strong community
5. About Ansible ? - YAML syntax - Jinja2 templates - SSH with no remote agents - A module library
6. Ad hoc commands Refers to running Ansible to perform some quick command, directly from cli using the ansible command
8. Playbooks Anything you can do ad-hoc can be accomplished by writing a playbook,it is a way to glue lots of operations together.
10. Organization One thing you will definitely want to do though, is use the “roles” organization feature
12. Infrastructure management - Set up environments - Configure server - Deploy code - Performs ad hoc tasks
15. Interesting resources - http://www.fullstackpython.com/configuration- management.html
16. Thanks a lot :)