WELCOME TO ANSIBLEFEST SF 2014! What's New In Ansible 1.7/1.8/...

HI!

TODAY'S LOGISTICS

STATE OF THE ANSIBLE

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

NEW IN ANSIBLE 1.7.1

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

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

EXPANDED INVENTORY SUPPORT inventory scripts for Azure, VMware, SoftLayer new provisioning modules for Azure and VMware

ANSIBLE 1.8 (DEVELOPMENT)

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

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

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

ADDITIONAL LOAD BALANCER SUPPORT (A10 MODULES) adding to existing options -- netscalers, F5s, haproxy, etc

DOCKER IMAGES base images for faster ansible playbook builds using Docker Hub Ubuntu and CentOS development and latest stable release

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

ADDITIONAL PLANS ... largely driven by folks like you!

THANKS! EMAIL - MICHAEL@ANSIBLE.COM TWITTER - @LASERLLAMA