[TriZPUG] TriLUG Feb 13: Ansible for remote system management

[Justis Peters]

Please join us for the Triangle Linux Users Group meeting, February 13, 
with TriPython's very own Joseph Tate. Details below:

*Topic:*Ansible
*Presenter:*Joseph Tate
*When:*Thursday, 13th February 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm)
*Where:*NC State Engineering Building II Room TBA, Centennial Campus 
(watch http://trilug.org/2014-02-13/ansible) for updates
*Parking:*The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm
*Map:*Google Maps 
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*Abstract:*
Ansible is a powerful remote system management tool like Puppet or Chef 
for configuration management and like Fabric and Capistrano for 
application deployment. Ansible can also do system provisioning through 
modules for various cloud providers. As a hybrid, Ansible is a little 
more step-wise than a pure configuration management system (which makes 
it better for deploying software and dealing with multiple system tiers) 
and more declarative than your typical remote automation framework 
(which makes it easier to manage dissimilar systems, even systems not 
originally deployed with Ansible). It has very minimal client 
requirements and no deployed client agent. Joseph will introduce Ansible 
for single tasks and highlight some of the built in modules and what you 
can do with them. Then he will jump into best practices for stringing 
multiple tasks together into Ansible Playbooks (especially how not to 
repeat yourself). Finally, he'll tie it all together with Amazon EC2 to 
show how to fire up spot instances using a base image, configure it with 
a set of software and configuration, do some work with it, and finally 
tear it all down.

*Bio:*
Joseph was introduced to Linux while in college in 1998, and while he 
didn't understand Debian then (and arguably still doesn't), did manage 
to download RedHat 5.0 onto a bunch of floppies and install it 
successfully; he then tried never again to look at Windows with varying 
degrees of failure. He 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 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, 
served as Publicity Chair of TriLUG from 2004-2006, and has reluctantly 
been awarded three software patents. He thinks KDE is the best desktop 
to run multiple terminals in, and VIM is the best editor.


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