Culture at AnsibleFest 2020

At Red Hat, we’ve long recognized that the power of collaboration enables communities to achieve more together than individuals can accomplish on their own. Developing an organizational culture that empowers communities to flourish and collaborate -- whether in an open source community or for an internal community of practice -- isn’t always straightforward. This year at AnsibleFest, the Culture topic aims to demystify some of these areas by sharing the stories, practices, and examples that can get you on your path to better collaboration. 

Culture at AnsibleFest: “Open” for participation

Because we recognize that culture is not a “one size fits all” topic, we’ve made sure to sprinkle nearly every track at AnsibleFest with relevant content to help every type of Ansible user (or manager of Ansible users!) participate in developing healthy cultures and communities of automation inside their organizations. 

Whether you’re interested in contributing to open source communities, learning how others have grown the use of Ansible inside their departments or organizations, or if you’re simply interested in building healthy, diverse, inclusive communities, inside or outside the workplace -- the Culture (cross) Channel at AnsibleFest has you covered. 

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No Sleep ‘Til (Ansible Contributor Summit) Brooklyn!

HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF ANSIBLE

 Are you a contributor to Ansible, or interested in becoming a contributor to Ansible?

Ansible's third Contributor Summit is coming soon, offering contributors the opportunity to participate in and shape the future of Ansible. We'll be gathering October 10, 2016 in Brooklyn, the day before AnsibleFest Brooklyn 2016, to collaborate and plan around a variety of Ansible-related topics. Your feedback and presence are welcomed. Read on to find out how you can join us!

ANSIBLE CONTRIBUTOR SUMMIT, ROUND THREE!

2016: The Tipping Point for DevOps

Ahhh, a new year.

While 2015 was certainly a big year for us as we joined the Red Hat family, in many ways we’re still right at home with our roots deeply planted in the ways of open source. That means we’re listening (as we always do) to our customers and community members about what what they see as their problems to solve and goals to achieve in the year ahead. 

Here’s a bit of what we see:

• DevOps! It’s everywhere! If ever there was a buzzword to officially deserve the “jumped the shark” label, this might just be it. General understanding of DevOps as a practice that can potentially accelerate IT project delivery has permeated most IT departments, from the smallest of businesses to the most daunting of large enterprises, sometimes from the grassroots level, and sometimes from the top down.  

• Thankfully, along with this recognition, people are increasingly recognizing that DevOps isn’t simply tools -- that building a healthy organizational culture is a significant part of their journey. Many organizations are beginning to recognize that it’s not a lightswitch, or a flat-out reorg. The idea that small wins can matter when bringing DevOps practices into your Continue reading

2016: The Tipping Point for DevOps

Ahhh, a new year.

While 2015 was certainly a big year for us as we joined the Red Hat family, in many ways we’re still right at home with our roots deeply planted in the ways of open source. That means we’re listening (as we always do) to our customers and community members about what what they see as their problems to solve and goals to achieve in the year ahead. 

Here’s a bit of what we see:

• DevOps! It’s everywhere! If ever there was a buzzword to officially deserve the “jumped the shark” label, this might just be it. General understanding of DevOps as a practice that can potentially accelerate IT project delivery has permeated most IT departments, from the smallest of businesses to the most daunting of large enterprises, sometimes from the grassroots level, and sometimes from the top down.  

• Thankfully, along with this recognition, people are increasingly recognizing that DevOps isn’t simply tools -- that building a healthy organizational culture is a significant part of their journey. Many organizations are beginning to recognize that it’s not a lightswitch, or a flat-out reorg. The idea that small wins can matter when bringing DevOps practices into your Continue reading

Your Ansible Playbook for OpenStack Summit Tokyo

The next OpenStack Summit is quickly approaching -- and the schedule is, as always, packed with great sessions, collaboration days, social events, get-togethers, and more.

If you’re joining the event in Tokyo, which runs from October 27-30, and you’re a fan of Ansible, you just might be thinking to yourself… “If only there was a playbook for this!”

Behold! My amazing psychic capabilities alerted me to this exact scenario. Okay, not really, but: in, ahem, "playbook-inspired" format, you’ll find a list of tasks for each type of role -- conference sessions, OpenStack projects using Ansible to know about, the Ansible Collaboration Day onsite at Summit, and how to stay up to date with Ansible-related happenings on-site and beforehand.

Not familiar with Ansible yet, or how it works with OpenStack? Here's the great news: There will be plenty of opportunities for you to learn all about it at OpenStack Summit. And just like Ansible makes it easy for you to deploy and operate your OpenStack cloud -- this blog post makes it easy for you to find the Ansible-related content to get you started on your path to Ansible+OpenStack cloud bliss.

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Uncontaina-bull: The love for Ansible + Docker

Here at Ansible, we normally leave it up to our good friend @Ansibull to deploy the puns. But having just joined Ansible in the past few weeks, I’ve been spending some time getting acquainted with the vast quantity of Ansible resources produced by the lovely folks in the community, and I have to say, the amount of great content out there is just…

In-cow-cula-bull.

This is especially great for those of us looking how to do Ansible + $justaboutanything: Ansible + OpenStack, Ansible + Drupal, Ansible + CoreOS, or, as you may have guessed, Ansible + Docker.

Of course, Ansible has some useful resources for how to use Docker with Ansible. But the beautiful thing about what all of our friends in the community are writing is that they’re sharing all the things they learned along the way, how it helped out their company or workplace, what puzzles they had to solve; basically, things you may run into yourself, or ideas that may be inspiring to you that you hadn’t thought of just yet.

And to not share those things with everyone else? That would be, ahem, unthinka-bull. So without further ado: Here’s just a little bit of the latest Continue reading