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Announcing the Speaker LIneup For AnsibleFest San Francisco
Featuring speakers from SparkCentral, Riot Games, Blue Box, and more!
We’re happy to announce our confirmed speakers for AnsibleFest San Francisco 2015. Join us on November 19th at the InterContinental San Francisco for a day-long conference bringing together Ansible users, developers, IT professionals, and industry partners to learn more about ways automation is transforming IT.
We had a record number of submissions for this conference, and were excited to have such a dynamic pool of submissions to pick from. We took each submission, anonymized them to remove any speaker/company/product information, and sent them off to our team of Top Men and Women for blind review. We then picked out a well-rounded agenda from the highest scoring talks, and we’re happy to announce them today.
These are just some of our speakers this year. Stay tuned for additional updates in the coming weeks.
CONFIRMED SESSIONS
Deploying Microservices
Stephen Brandon, DevOps Engineer, Sparkcentral
A step back from massive monoliths and colossal clusters, we’ll take a look at managing microservices with Ansible. In this session, Stephen will demonstrate deploying services with rollback and error handling, truncating releases, and restarting processes.
Learn:
- A simple set of playbooks to deploy services
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Tower 2.3 Has Arrived
We’re happy to announce the release of Ansible Tower 2.3, our console and service that brings control, security, and delegation to your Ansible deployments.
Historically Tower has been installed with a simple setup playbook that you run with the Ansible you already have to download and install Tower. But not everyone has the luxury of access to the internet at all times.
Starting with Tower 2.3, we now offer a bundled installer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS systems. This all-in-one installer contains everything you need to get Tower started in one bundle, including bootstrapping of Ansible for you as needed. All you need is a Red Hat or CentOS machine with access to the vendor OS repositories - no other external access required. The playbook installer is still available as well, and Tower is also still available via Vagrant image or AMI if you’d prefer to try it via that method.
As usual, this release of Tower includes a variety of bug fixes as well, including performance improvements around listing jobs and job templates.
For more information on Tower 2.3, check the release notes at: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/installandreference/release_notes.html
To try Ansible Tower 2.3 Continue reading
Tower 2.2 is Here
We’re happy to announce that Ansible Tower 2.2 is now available.
Ansible Tower is the console and service that builds on the solid foundation of Ansible’s simple automation to bring the control, security, and delegation you need to spread automation across your IT infrastructure. We’ve worked hard to update Tower to bring new capabilities to our users. I’ve talked about these some when I discussed how Tower 2.2 was coming soon - now I’d like to go into a little more detail.
Refreshed UI with Setup Mode
We’ve talked to many of our customers who use Tower on an everyday basis. And the continuing refrain is:
“Foreground the stuff we need every day. Background what we don’t.”
We’ve started that process with Tower 2.2. First, you’ll notice the changes on the dashboard, where we’ve removed extraneous graphs so you can concentrate on the important information - are your hosts OK, and are your jobs succeeding. Plus, you’ll see lists of both recent completed jobs, and recently used playbooks.
We’ve also added sparklines to the display of job templates so that wherever you’re seeing your job templates, you have an easy visual display of how that job Continue reading
Ansible Tower 2.2 … coming soon!
If you were at AnsibleFest NYC, you saw a sneak preview of Ansible Tower 2.2, coming this summer. For those of you that didn't, we thought we'd mention some of the things that are coming in the next release.
Ansible Tower remains the best way to run Ansible in your organization - marrying the simple, agentless, and powerful automation of Ansible with the control, security, and delegation you need to supercharge your IT teams ability to tackle complex automation tasks simply.
And we've worked to make Tower even better for you, bringing you new features like:
Streamlined Interface with Setup Mode
We've listened to our customers and foregrounded the things you need on a day to day basis.,Meanwhile, Tower’s new setup screen gathers all the parts of Tower the administrator needs to configure such as organizations, users, groups, and permissions, in one place.
Galaxy Integration
Just add a Galaxy requirements file to your project directory, and Tower will automatically pull any playbook roles you need from Ansible Galaxy, GitHub, or any other centralized source.
Inventory Support for OpenStack
Ansible is committed to help make OpenStack simple for everyone to use, and we've now made it simple to Continue reading
#AnsibleFest NYC 2015 – Speaker Lineup
We’re proud to announce some of the speaker lineup for AnsibleFest NYC. AnsibleFest is a day-long conference bringing together hundreds of Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best-practices, case studies and Ansible news.
Check out our line up of some of the sessions.
AnsibleFest is next Thursday, June 4th in NYC.
Register today as space is very limited.
Ansible v2, James Cammarata, Director of Engineering
A walk through of some of the new features and benefits in the 2.0 release.
Bio:
James Cammarata is a Director of Engineering at Ansible. He is the lead developer of Ansible, and has worked on tools such as Ansible and Cobbler in the past.
Twitter @thejimic
Ansible Tower 2.2, Bill Nottingham, Director of Product, Ansible
Everyone knows about Ansible’s simple, agentless, and powerful automation. (At least, we assume that’s why you’re here.) But sometimes you need more in your organization - you want to be able to find out what happened with your playbook run last week. You want to delegate your rollouts to the dev team, so you don’t have to do it.
We’ll show how Ansible Tower adds control, security, and delegation around Ansible. Plus, we’ll Continue reading
Ansible Tower Now Available with Vagrant
Ansible is about simple, yet powerful automation. We want to make automation easy for everyone to learn, use, and deploy, for developers, system administrators, and operators of every skill level.
Every day we hear the success stories of people who have been able to take Ansible’s powerful automation and use it to cut their IT costs, stabilize their deployments, and allow them to get back to their focus of their job rather than continually grinding through manual tasks.
On top of that, we’ve built Ansible Tower, a web interface and API that brings those same simple principles to applying command, control, and delegation to an Ansible deployment. Customers like Nike, Splunk, Grainger, and others use Tower to centralize their Ansible deployment, delegate credentials and tasks to users in a controlled manner, and allow easy self-service access to users without them knowing the specifics of those automation.
We’re always interested in making things simpler for our users, and this extends to deploying and trying Tower as well. That’s why we’ve decided to make Tower available for use with Vagrant - what’s simpler than that?
You can try out Ansible Tower in Vagrant with just a few commands.
$ vagrant init tower
WINDOWS IS COMING? WINDOWS IS HERE!
Back in June, we told you that Windows was coming. We’ve continued to improve the support, with the help of the outstanding Ansible community, and we’d like to highlight some of the improvements in Ansible 1.9. We now offer additional modules, support for domain authentication, and more.
For more information on Ansible’s Windows support, check out our Windows page, or our Ansible Intro to Windows documentation.
As always, we couldn’t do this without our outstanding Ansible community. Thanks to Chris Church, Jon Hawkesworth, Trond Hindenes, Peter Mounce, Chris Hoffman, Paul Durivage, and more!
