Ansible: Radically Simple Infrastructure Management

What: Ansible presentation for DevOpsLive.org
When: Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Who: Brandon Keown & Jeff Gonzalez

Transcript

1. Brandon Keown & Jeff Gonzalez Ansible: Radically Simple Infrastructure Management Wednesday, September 18, 13
2. What is Ansible? Configuration Management Application Deployment Continuous Delivery Wednesday, September 18, 13
3. Why use Ansible? SSH - No additional PKI Agent-less* Readable by humans Tons of modules (EC2, MongoDB, Redis, etc) Wednesday, September 18, 13
4. But... Enforcement Really large static infrastructure Cutting-edge Wednesday, September 18, 13
5. Ansible Architecture Wednesday, September 18, 13
6. Inventory Simple ini format Represents: hosts, host groups, and variables Regular expressions, wildcards, custom aliases Wednesday, September 18, 13
7. Playbooks Playbooks contain plays Plays contain tasks Tasks represent unit of work Orchestration language Wednesday, September 18, 13
8. Writing a Play Wednesday, September 18, 13
9. Best Practices Roles Custom Modules (Any language) Rolling Updates Wednesday, September 18, 13
10. Demo Time Wednesday, September 18, 13
11. Resources www.ansibleworks.com github.com/likwid/ansible-demo Wednesday, September 18, 13