[TriLUG] Meeting, May 12: Ansible in Real Life

[Brian Gerard via TriLUG]

Topic: Ansible in Real Life
Presenter: Joseph Tate
When: Thursday, 12 May 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: Bandwidth, NC State Centennial Campus
Parking: The parking deck in the Venture Center is free after 5pm
Webpage: https://trilug.org/2016-05-12/ansible

Abstract:
Developing, testing, staging, and deploying python server applications is
simplified when the same tool manages all of your various operating
environments. Learn how to use Ansible to manage all of these environments from
a single set of inventories and playbooks.

Joseph will talk in depth about how to use inventories and playbooks
intelligently to deploy your application stack to developer workstations (e.g.,
Vagrant), test systems (e.g., Jenkins), full test environments (permanent or
ephemeral), and even to production servers without repeating yourself, or
building a bunch of if/else/fi or switch statements in bash.

Bio:
Joseph began programming in 1994 in TurboPascal after dabbling a bit in basic on
Apple II, Commodore VIC-20, and DOS, cut his first open source teeth on PHP
earning commit access to a couple of modules in 2001, and since has contributed
to many other projects. He saw the light in 2005 when he began developing web
based applications in Python (TurboGears pre-1.0) He now contributes most
regularly to CherryPy and a couple of pet projects. A long time RPM slinger, he
worked for the now defunct rPath from 2005-2009 building system configuration
and distro building software. Now he runs the completely virtual infrastructure
and continuous testing and build system for a small SaaS startup in California
from his evil lair^W^Wbasement. Joseph holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science from Duke University, contributes regularly to his local Linux
and Python User Groups, and has reluctantly been awarded five software patents.
He thinks VIM is the best editor. Joseph lives in Durham, NC.