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Ansible Chicago Meetup Recap

If you don't follow Ansible's VP of Community, Greg DeKoenigsberg, on Twitter you may have missed his recap of the Ansible Chicago Meetup.

Dean Strelau and Rick Pollak of Trunk Club invited us to host our inaugural Ansible Chicago meetup at their headquarters in downtown Chicago.  This is often how it happens: a company that uses Ansible volunteers to host a meetup, and gets the benefit of being seen as a technology leader in their community; we get to show the local community how a prominent user puts Ansible to best use. Everybody wins! We’ve done similar meetups in New York, San Francisco, London, and many other cities.  

Trunk Club, though, was one of the most fascinating yet. For those who aren’t familiar with the business model,check out their site for a detailed description. The short version: they talk to you about what you like, they use business intelligence to help their stylists pick out the best clothes for you, and then they send you a trunk full of clothes they think you’ll like. And then you keep what you like, send back what you don’t, and they charge you appropriately.  Great model, Continue reading

Ansible Tower Demo Webinar

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We have been running monthly Ansible Tower demo webinars over the past few months. These webinars are a great way to see Ansible Tower in action and be able to ask questions and have them answered by our own Dave Johnson.

Our Latest Tower Demo Webinar

Be sure to check our events page for all of our upcoming AnsibleFests, trainings and webinars.

AnsibleFest London Tickets Available NOW

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Join us for our FIRST AnsibleFest outside the United States!

We are offering Early Bird pricing from now until December 31st.

Buy £149 Early Bird AnsibleFest London Tickets

AnsibleFest is a day-long conference bringing together Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best-practices, case studies and Ansible news. If you are a developer, sysadmin, operations director or devops practioner, AnsibleFest is for you. Past speakers have included Twitter, Google, Rackspace, EdX, HP, Twilio, Cumulus Networks, Telescope.tv and many more - as well as members of the Ansible Team.

Where is it happening?

AnsibleFest London 2015 will be held in central London at the Lancaster London. Lunch, coffee, snacks and wi-fi will be served... and please stick around for our happy hour at the end of the event.

Want to speak or sponsor?

AnsibleFest London 2015 call for presentations is OPEN. Email your presentation ideas to [email protected].

If you are interested in sponsoring AnsibleFest London 2015, email [email protected].

Buy your Early Bird Tickets TODAY!

Cumulus and Ansible

Simplify_the_Network_with_Ansible This past September Michael DeHaan took part in a joint Ansible and Cumulus Networks webinar on how Ansible and Cumulus can radically simplify the nature of modern IT management, and how well they can play together.

 

Learn more here

Watch a quick demo video of how to use Ansible to automate network switches running cumulus linux. 

Ansible Tower Webinar

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We have an Ansible Tower webinar scheduled for next week.

This webinar will provide an example of how Ansible Tower allows you to centralize your Ansible infrastructure from a modern UI, featuring role-based access control, job scheduling, and graphical inventory management. Tower's REST API and CLI make it easy to embed Tower into existing tools and processes.

Tower now includes real-time output of playbook runs, an all-new dashboard and expanded out-of-the-box cloud support. 

Sign-up today

Ansible Tower Demo - 11/19 2:30 PM EST

FREE Ansible Up & Running Preview

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Are you camped out at your local bookstore awaiting the release of Ansible Up & Running next year and want something to read? How about the first 3 chapters of the book? 

The free ebook preview of Ansible Up & Running by Lorin Hochstein includes:

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2  - Playbooks, a Beginning
Chapter 3 - Inventory: Describing Your Servers

To download your copy in PDF, MOBI and ePUB formats click here or the link below.

Ansible Up & Running - Free Preview

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Case Study: Tradesy and Ansible

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We've just completed another new Ansible case study; Tradesy. Tradesy is an online consignment store where people can offer their fashion and accessories for resale. 

Tradesy had been doing everything by hand until making a move to use Ansible Tower in an effort to automate as many things as they could.

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Case Study: Hootsuite

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Hootsuite, the excellent social media management platform used by over 75% of the Fortune 500, is a big fan of Ansible and uses it for app deployment. Beier Cai, the Director of Technology at Hootsuite was kind enough to speak to us about how Hootsuite uses Asnible to overcome their business challenges.

“Our infrastructure is not scripted, repeatable or immutable. Rebuilding a server relies on limited documentation and mostly memory. Lack of repeatability makes automating our infrastructure and application deployment difficult. 


Read the full case study amd learn how Ansible solves their problems here.

Read more about Ansible and App Deployment.

Good Ansible News, Everyone

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There are lots of great things happening at Ansible (and we aren't just talking about the new coffee in the breakroom). We've had a great summer with the hiring a bunch of new Ansible team members, the release of Ansible 1.7.2 and Ansible Tower 2.0. Fall is shaping up to be even better.

-- Inforworld names Ansible one of The best open source data center and cloud software companies.

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