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Using Docker Machine with Photon TP2

In this post, I’ll show you how to use Docker Machine in conjunction with VMware Photon OS Technical Preview 2 (aka “TP2”). Given that Photon was designed to host containers, this is—for the most part—pretty straightforward. There are a couple of glitches that I need to point out, though, that might hang up new users.

First off, kudos to Fabio Rapposelli for taking some time at VMworld to help me work through the details. I really appreciate his time!

If you want to use Docker Machine with Photon, there are four major requirements today (stress the word “today,” as all these products are rapidly evolving and these requirements may soon disappear or change):

  1. You’ll need to use Fabio’s special build of Docker Machine that includes support for AppCatalyst and Photon OS. I anticipate that support for AppCatalyst and Photon OS (the latter of which is what’s really needed in this case) will get rolled into Docker Machine (main branch) soon, but for now a different build is needed. (If you don’t use Fabio’s build, Docker Machine will report an “unrecognized OS” or similar).

  2. You’ll have to use Docker Machine’s generic driver. Even Fabio’s branch of Docker Machine doesn’t yet (to Continue reading

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.

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AWS re:Invent re:cap

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What a week. Some tech conferences I like, and others I love. Falling solidly in my "love" category, the Amazon team pulled off another great event with re:Invent 2015. Of course, the AWS product folks didn’t disappoint, either. (And neither did surprise re:Play party guest Zedd.)

We welcomed many hundreds of visitors to our booth during the three days. Over 200 shirts, many more Ansibulls, and every single sticker, luggage tag, and business card were gobbled up by excited Ansible users and Tower customers.

Perhaps the most entertaining part was to learn what people had to say:

“We heart Ansible.”
“Ansible is the only predictable thing about our environment.”
“DevOps? More like AnsibleOps.”
“You guys changed our lives.”
“I keep getting told I need to look at Ansible.”
“Thank you… just thank you.” (My personal favorite)

Certainly all bold statements for an IT orchestration tool. Even Network World joined in on the fun by naming Ansible one of the hottest products at re:Invent, thanks in part to our new IAM modules that simplify the setup and maintenance of IAM users, groups, keys, and policies.

The sentiments got me thinking. Seemingly, AWS is Continue reading

No Bull. Just Swag.

We're over-the-moon excited to announce the Ansible online store is live. In response to all of the love you've shown us, we had to step up our swag game. The Ansible Store carries a variety of our best items, and we can't wait to see you showing off your Ansible pride. 

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You can find your all-time favorites, like t-shirts, mugs and stickers. Plus, we've added a few exciting new items, like Ansible + Patagonia backpacks and onesies for our youngest fans.

For now we're only shipping throughout the United States while we get up and running. For our international friends, we'll expand shipment in the future. Stay tuned. 

Don't be surprised when you don't see our lovable Ansi-bull on the site. You'll need to attend a meetup or spot us at an event for one of those. 

So what are you waiting for? Start shopping and join the A team. 

Webinar Q&A: Docker Overview

Thanks everyone who joined us during our Docker Overview webinar. During this webinar, we gave a high level introduction to Docker, and let the audience see the platform in action during a live demo. The recording of the webinar is available … Continued

Feature Spotlight: System Tracking

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During the second installment of our webinar series about Ansible Tower features, we highlighted system tracking, a functionality which was just added to Tower with our 2.2. release.

System Tracking was created to give administrators the necessary tools to audit and verify that machines are in compliance. Use the tool to see how a machine has changed over time, or compare machines in your cluster to see how they are different.

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For example, you may need to determine whether a set of machines had a security patch applied, or determine when a patch was applied. The System Tracking tools can help you do that. They can also help you evaluate your infrastructure for compliance against specific requirements, and periodically examine machines for unexpected changes.

When you run a scan, you’ll be able to see packages, services, and Ansible facts side-by-side for comparison. All differences in Ansible facts are highlighted in red for easy reference.

You can also expand this function by writing your own Ansible module that gathers the custom facts you want to see. Simply implement a module that returns the “ansible_facts” key, as described in the Ansible documentation.

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Your Docker Agenda for October

Wow, Docker Global Hack Day #3 was a huge success! Over 2,000 community members attended the over 50 local editions organized by Docker meetup groups. Many thanks to all of the amazing people who made these events possible and our awesome Docker community who … Continued

Ansible + AWS: Re-Inventing Cloud Automation

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Amazon Web Services and Ansible together make a great pair. AWS is a popular cloud target for Ansible users, and the reasons are clear: Ansible offers built-in support for over 20 different AWS capabilities with 50 different easy-to-use and understand Ansible modules. And as always, from on-premise to cloud, you can automate 100% of your infrastructure without ever installing an agent.

The takeaway? If your IT organizations is serious about AWS, then it needs to be serious about Ansible automation.

Come visit Ansible in booth 439 at re:Invent 2015 to learn how customers are using the Ansible automation platform to re-invent how they’re managing their cloud applications. Whether you’re just dipping your toe into the cloud, or are already running a fully-automated devops-enabled environment, Ansible is the key to unlocking the full benefit of moving to the cloud.

Connect with our team at the show:

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Todd Barr
SVP of Sales & Marketing

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Justin Nemmers
Director of Federal & State Government

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John Ryan
Senior Director of Channels & Business Development

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Dave Johnson
Technical Director

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Danny Ganzon
Account Executive

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Jonathan Davila
Solutions Architect

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If you’re new to Ansible, this is your opportunity to hit us with whatever questions you have about how Continue reading

Your Ansible Playbook for OpenStack Summit Tokyo

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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.

All you have to do is decide which Continue reading

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