AnsibleFest SF 2014 - What's New In Ansible 1.7/1.8

Slides from keynote at AnsibleFest San Francisco, October 14th, 2014.

1. WELCOME TO ANSIBLEFEST SF 2014! What's New In Ansible 1.7/1.8/...
2. HI!
3. TODAY'S LOGISTICS
4. STATE OF THE ANSIBLE
5. GITHUB AND ELSEWHERE First of all, thanks! You are keeping us busy! Keep doing it! 890+ contributors to date Top 100 most forked projects on GitHub (2400+) at least 38% of Forks result in contributions
6. NEW IN ANSIBLE 1.7.1
7. WINDOWS MANAGEMENT PREVIEW uses Windows powershell remoting modules in PowerShell or can push raw PowerShell setup script - h o s t s : w i n g r o u p c o n n e c t i o n : w i n r m t a s k s : - w i n _ p i n g
8. RUN_ONCE - t a s k s : - y u m : n a m e = f o o s t a t e = l a t e s t - l o c a l _ a c t i o n : / u s r / s b i n / f o o r u n _ o n c e : T r u e - s e r v i c e : n a m e = f o o s t a t e = s t a r t e d
9. EXPANDED INVENTORY SUPPORT inventory scripts for Azure, VMware, SoftLayer new provisioning modules for Azure and VMware
10. ANSIBLE 1.8 (DEVELOPMENT)
11. FACT CACHING uses Redis (memcached also available) store playbook variables / facts between executions [ d e f a u l t s ] f a c t _ c a c h i n g = r e d i s f a c t _ c a c h i n g _ t i m e o u t = 8 6 4 0 0 # s e c o n d s
12. NO_LOG TWEAKS previoulsy surpressed syslog now surpresses CLI / callback output as well t a s k s : - c o m m a n d : / u s r / b i n / f o o - - p a s s w o r d = s e c r e t n o _ l o g : T r u e
13. ANSIBLE-GALAXY CLI UPGRADES requirements.yml be able to install from multiple-repos not just galaxy git, hg, tarballs, and galaxy a n s i b l e - g a l a x y - f r e q u i r e m e n t s . y m l # f r o m g a l a x y - s r c : y a t e s r . t i m e z o n e # f r o m g i t h u b - s r c : h t t p s : / / g i t h u b . c o m / b e n n o j o y / n g i n x # f r o m g i t h u b i n s t a l l i n g t o a r e l a t i v e p a t h - s r c : h t t p s : / / g i t h u b . c o m / b e n n o j o y / n g i n x p a t h : v a g r a n t / r o l e s / # f r o m g i t h u b , o v e r r i d i n g t h e n a m e a n d s p e c i f y i n g a s p e c i f i c t a g - s r c : h t t p s : / / g i t h u b . c o m / b e n n o j o y / n g i n x v e r s i o n : m a s t e r n a m e : n g i n x _ r o l e # f r o m a w e b s e r v e r , w h e r e t h e r o l e i s p a c k a g e d i n a t a r . g z - s r c : h t t p s : / / s o m e . w e b s e r v e r . e x a m p l e . c o m / f i l e s / m a s t e r . t a r . g z n a m e : h t t p - r o l e
14. ADDITIONAL LOAD BALANCER SUPPORT (A10 MODULES) adding to existing options -- netscalers, F5s, haproxy, etc
15. DOCKER IMAGES base images for faster ansible playbook builds using Docker Hub Ubuntu and CentOS development and latest stable release
16. REFACTORINGS (ONGOING 1.9/...) reorganize after years of glorious OSS contribution hailstorm :) focus on hybrid-OO/functional architecture, TDD enable features like blocks, try/except, future language changes simplify module and templating internals enable line number reporting
17. ADDITIONAL PLANS ... largely driven by folks like you!
18. THANKS! EMAIL - MICHAEL@ANSIBLE.COM TWITTER - @LASERLLAMA