Provisioning an Autoscaling Infrastructure using Ansible
About Autoscaling
The concepts behind Amazon's Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) are very promising. Who wouldn't want to have their infrastructure scale automatically with increases and decreases of demand? Plenty of folks are using ASGs to do that today. ASGs do bring about their own challenges, which this series of blog posts will show solutions to by taking advantage of features in Ansible and Ansible Tower.
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Tower 2.0: Supercharging the Ansible Experience
Tower 2.0 is our biggest release so far, and focuses on supercharging the day to day Ansible experience -- creating the best possible environment for a team using Ansible. It completely revolutionizes the way Ansible playbooks are experienced. New features in Ansible Tower’s 2.0 release include:
Continue readingAnsible 1.7 is released – Windows beta and more!
Today we're releasing Ansible 1.7, another major release of Ansible! Following our important Van Halen-based codename scheme, 1.7 is "Summer Nights", and 1.8 will be "You Really Got Me"
Continue readingThe New Ansible Tower Command Line Tool
Today we're happy to announce a new update to Ansible Tower CLI (link) that provides near 100% coverage of all REST functions within Ansible Tower from a CLI perspective. The CLI tool can also be imported and used as a library from other python programs. Tower CLI is open source, under the Apache 2.0 license, so it can be easily mixed into other projects, and we're also happy to take pull requests and ideas on this project.
