Ansible Vancouver Kickoff Meetup

Kickoff presentation with, news, Ansiblefest overview, Ansible overview with an emphasis on best practices, with an emphasis on Roles.
https://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_intro.html#playbook-language-example
https://www.ansible.com/blog/getting-started-writing-your-first-playbook
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/become.html
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_blocks.html
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_roles.html#roles
https://www.ansible.com/videos-ansible-automates-roles-and-galaxy
https://galaxy.ansible.com/
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_dynamic_inventory.html#static-groups-of-dynamic-groups
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_patterns.html
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_variables.html#variables
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_best_practices.html
https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OpenOPS/pages/26837527/Ansible+Code+Conventions
https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-nginx
https://github.com/telusdigital/ansible-nginx
https://github.com/andrewrothstein/ansible-redis
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/galaxy.html#installing-multiple-roles-from-a-file
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/7

Transcript

1. Vancouver Ansible Meetup August 2017 Kickoff (again)
2. Welcome! About me • News • Bugs • Ad-hoc, Playbooks, Inventories and Roles • Best practices, inventories, Roles, variables and playbooks • Proposal 7 • Q&A
3. News Ansiblefest San Francisco 2017, September 7 • https://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest • Schedule is up • Ansible + Serverless Technologies ◦ Ryan Brown, Senior Software Engineer, Ansible by Red Hat • Managing Windows Desktops with Ansible ◦ Dag Wieers, Freelance Automation Engineer
4. News Ansible 2.4 is Coming!! https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_4.rst • name: for blocks • Python3 support (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/python_3_support.html) • Kubernetes (ansible/ansible-kubernetes-modules) • Ansible-vault, multiple passwords
5. Interesting Bug • Get_url ssl errors ◦ https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/18894 • Yours??
6. Adhoc ansible -m setup ansible -m shell -a “grep jenkins /etc/passwd” webservers -f 30 -b -K
7. Playbooks • http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_intro.html#playbook-lan guage-example https://www.ansible.com/blog/getting-started-writing-your-first-playbook • Become (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/become.html) -b ◦ Become_user ◦ Become_method ◦ -K • Blocks, http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_blocks.html • Loops, conditionals, meta, handlers, strategies, async, debugger, check mode, delegation, prompts, start and step, lookups
8. Roles • http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_roles.html#roles • https://www.ansible.com/videos-ansible-automates-roles-and-galaxy • https://galaxy.ansible.com/
9. Inventory (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_inventory.html) Local • hosts file Dynamic • Ec2 • Vmware • Sharepoint, mysql, solarwinds
10. Inventories (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_inventory.html) Groups Static Groups of Dynamic Groups • http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_dynamic_inventory.html#static-groups-of-dynamic-groups -hosts: webservers (host) patterns (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_patterns.html)
11. Can’t forget Variables • http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_variables.html#variable s • Hierarchy/precedence of variables Static Groups of Dynamic Groups • http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_dynamic_inventory.html#static-groups-of-dynamic-groups
12. Best Practices (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_best_practices.html) • Directory layout • “You absolutely should be using roles. Roles are great. Use roles. Roles! Did we say that enough? Roles are great” • Staging Vs Production • Vault for secrets (now supports multiple passwords) • Top level Playbooks are separated by Role • https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OpenOPS/pages/26837527/Ansible+Code+Conventions
13. Best Practices, more on Roles • Keep it simple (https://www.ansible.com/ansible-roles-by-acquia) https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-nginx Vs https://github.com/telusdigital/ansible-nginx https://github.com/andrewrothstein/ansible-redis
14. You absolutely should be using roles. Roles are great. Use roles. Roles! Did we say that enough? Roles are great • Ansible Galaxy, YMMV • ansible-galaxy init my-role • ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml ◦ http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/galaxy.html#installing-multiple-roles-from-a-file
15. Proposal 7 • https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/7
16. Keep it Stupidly Simple Complexity kills Innovation
17. Thank you Ted (Redhat) and Bryan (Hootsuite) Questions and Answers?
18. Thanks! Contact me: @viper_233 https://github.com/viper233