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.
Learn:
- A simple set of playbooks to deploy services
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How I Started Contributing to the Docker Project
written by Antonio Murdaca, (@runc0m) I’ve always struggled with finding the free time to give back some of what I take from open source on a daily basis. This is by far the most obvious reason people find it difficult … ContinuedDockerCon EU 2015: Four More Speakers Announced!
Are you excited for DockerCon EU 2015? We can’t contain our excitement! If you are planning on joining us at DockerCon EU 2015, make sure you register now because DockerCon EU 2015 is on track to sell out early just like the previous editions! … ContinuedSecurity Release: Docker 1.8.3 and 1.6.2-CS7
As part of our ongoing security efforts, a vulnerability was discovered that affects the way content is stored and retrieved within the Docker Engine. Today we are releasing a security update that addresses this issue in accordance with our coordinated … ContinuedAWS re:Invent re:cap
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.
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.
DockerCon EU 2015: Six More Speakers Confirmed!
It was a difficult decision but our DockerCon Committee has finished reviewing all of the 393 submissions for DockerCon EU 2015. Big thank you to everyone who submitted talks – the quality and quantity were inspiring! If you’re planning on attending … ContinuedWebinar 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 … ContinuedFeature Spotlight: System Tracking
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.
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.
Our goal with system tracking was to empower you Continue reading
Your Docker Agenda for AWS re:Invent 2015
Headed to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2015 tomorrow? So are we! Stop by booth #445 to say hi to the team, learn more about Docker and pick up some cool swag. Tweet your #dockerselfies from AWS re:Invent and enter … ContinuedYour 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 … ContinuedAnsible + AWS: Re-Inventing Cloud Automation
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.
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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
Docker Basics Webinar Q&A: Understanding Union Filesystems, Storage and Volumes
Our latest Docker webinar is part of a three session series that dives into Docker storage from outlining the basics, to considerations for planning and best practices. Our first session goes back to the basics to explain how images, storage … ContinuedDockerCon EU 2015: 3rd Round of Black Belt Speakers
The tracks in our Black Belt Track at this year’s DockerCon EU 2015 are going to be awesome! Based on feedback from DockerCon 2015 attendees, we curated this track to bring a strong focus on advanced technical sessions to the agenda. … ContinuedFour New Official Repos in Docker Hub: Gazebo, Rocket.chat, Joomla and Redmine
We’re excited to announce four new Official Repos that we added to Docker Hub in August and September. These repos are the newest additions to a growing library of curated content maintained by Docker and our partners. Docker users have … ContinuedYour 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.
All you have to do is decide which Continue reading
And the winners of Docker Global Hack Day #3 are…
The quality of the Docker hacks and amount of participation from the Docker community was simply phenomenal! Over 2,000 community members attended events around the world and 50 meetup groups organized local editions of this Docker Hack Day #3. Kudos to the Docker community and … ContinuedDockerCon EU 2015: Hands-On Labs
We know how busy everyone gets at DockerCon – there’s so much to do between conference talks, meeting members of the community and chatting with sponsors! We took all of the feedback from our pilot Docker Tutorials at DockerCon 2015 … ContinuedUsing Vagrant with OpenStack
In my earlier post on using Docker Machine with OpenStack, I talked about combining technologies in a “provider/consumer” model. In this post, I’m going to talk about creating this provider/consumer model using a different combination of technologies: OpenStack as the infrastructure provider and Vagrant for consuming that infrastructure.
If you’re unfamiliar with Vagrant, I recommend you first read this introduction to Vagrant (after that you can dig into all the other Vagrant-tagged posts). As I explain in that first post, Vagrant leverages the idea of providers (which enable Vagrant to work with various back-end virtualization platforms/solutions) as well as boxes (which are essentially VM templates). In this particular case, we’re leveraging an OpenStack provider for Vagrant that allows Vagrant to use OpenStack as the back-end virtualization solution. However, since OpenStack already has the equivalent of VM templates (in the form of images), there’s no need to use a Vagrant box. This makes using Vagrant with OpenStack slightly different than your typical Vagrant use case.
Prerequisites
Let’s start with reviewing some prerequisites—these are the things you’ll need to do/have done before you can use Vagrant with OpenStack (besides the obvious things like having Vagrant installed).
- You’ll need a working OpenStack Continue reading
Getting to Know John Ryan, Business Development & Channels
Knowing the members of our Ansible community is important to us, and we want you to get to know the members of our team in (and outside of!) the Ansible office. Stay tuned to the blog to learn more about the people who are helping to bring Ansible to life.
This week we're happy to introduce you to John Ryan, who joined Ansible as head of business development and channels. John has more than 30 years of experience in business development, channels, sales and marketing in infrastructure software, open source and network security. He’s held leadership positions at Proofpoint, Apigee, Red Hat, IBM and Sun Microsystems. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.
What’s your role at Ansible?
I develop and manage strategic alliances with leading cloud, networking, storage, infrastructure technology and consulting, reseller and systems integrator partners. I’m also helping to build out Ansible’s partner program, resources and joint DevOps market-making initiatives.
I collaborate closely with the a wide spectrum of teams, including product, engineering, marketing and sales leadership teams along with our partners to develop, promote, sell and drive Continue reading