With two days of AnsibleFest instead of one this time around, we had 100% more time to talk about Ansible things ! I got to attend great sessions, learn a bunch of things, chat and exchange war stories about Ansible, ARA, Zuul, Tower and many other things. It was awesome and I wanted to take the time to share a bit about some of the great Ansible community projects that were featured during the event....
The OpenStack community runs over 300 000 CI jobs with Ansible every month with the help of the awesome Zuul. It even provides ARA reports for ARA’s integration test jobs in a sort-of nested way. Zuul’s Ansible ends up installing Ansible and ARA. It makes my brain hurt sometimes… but in an awesome way. As a core contributor of the infrastructure team there, I get to witness issues and get a lot of feedback directly from the users....
More and more users requested other ways of reaching the ARA community and I’ve finally given in ! Until now, the only way of getting in touch was through IRC and I understand that, in 2017, IRC is not for everyone. Seamless communication across IRC, Slack and Discord That’s right, you can now reach us through Slack and Discord. Both are linked to IRC so messages sent to one will be relayed automatically to the others....
ARA is one year old, happy birthday ARA ! ARA’s come a long way since the early prototypes. The latest version, 0.13, looks pretty awesome. It even caught the eye of Michael DeHaan, the author of Ansible ! Let’s go back in time to look at the humble beginnings of the project and some of the important milestones that marked it’s history this past year. An idea and a first prototype I was beyond frustrated from trying to understand and troubleshoot Ansible playbook runs at scale....
Kolla is an OpenStack deployment tool that’s growing in popularity right now. An OpenStack installation by Kolla was even showcased by Chris Hoge and Mark Collier in one of the main keynotes at the recent Barcelona OpenStack Summit. Demo... containers with Kolla. So easy, even @sparkycollier can do it. @hogepodge has no cats or dogs: deploy a LAMP stack with Heat instead pic.twitter.com/uHetKLItEG — Robert Cathey (@robertcathey) October 25, 2016 Installing OpenStack is complex Installing and configuring OpenStack is no easy task – Kolla tackles this challenge with the help of Docker containers that are deployed with Ansible....