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

[Dewey Hylton via TriLUG]

please tell me the notes/video will be available afterward ... i can't make the long trip tonight but really want to see the presentation.

----- On May 10, 2016, at 5:39 PM, Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion trilug at trilug.org wrote:

> 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.
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