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ANSIBLE + MICROSOFT AZURE NEWS

The Azure and Ansible teams are collaborating on several interesting projects that we want to share. And if you joined us for AnsibleFest San Francisco earlier this month, you met both teams and heard some of the news. More on that below.

MS Ignite 2017

If you use Ansible to manage Azure and Windows environments, then hopefully you can join us at Microsoft Ignite this week in Orlando.

Ansible’s Matt Davis will co-present with Microsoft’s Hari Jayaraman, to discuss popular DevOps tools customers use to implement infrastructure as code processes in Azure. And the Ansible team will be in the Red Hat booth (#527) to demo automating Azure environments or any other questions you may have. 

Session Info:

Infrastructure as Code

Friday, September 29

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Windermere W

New Azure Modules in 2.4

One of the many announcements at AnsibleFest included the 16 new Azure modules contributed by the Azure team. The focus of the team was to cover the base use cases for Ansible users running workloads at scale in Azure.

New modules were added to manage Azure services:

• Availability sets
• Scale sets
• Authentication (ACS)
• Functions
• DNS
• Load Balancer
• Managed Disks

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VMC Launches with Ansible Modules for Provisioning and Management

With the recent announcement of VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) availability and pricing, the first question the Ansible team received was, “Will the vmware_guest modules work with cloud?”

Before we answer that question, let’s take a step back and look at why teams use Ansible to provision and manage VMware environments. VMware offers several automation tools that work well within the VMware ecosystems - so why Ansible?

What if you want to share automation across VMware and non-VMware infrastructure?

Enter Ansible. Ansible allows organizations to standardize on a simple IT automation language, regardless of technology, vendor or functional area.

• VMware -
• Cloud -
• Windows -
• Linux -
• Networking -
• Etc.

The Ansible VMware page does a good job of covering the key points if you want more detail.

VMC Launch

The good news is - yes - the Ansible VMware modules work with VMC out of the box.

VMC was announced as a hybrid cloud solution for VMware customers who want to leverage tools and skills that already exist in the organization. Using Ansible to provision VMs in on-premise (vSphere) and cloud (VMC) environments works in exactly the same manner.

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