The Wait is Over. Tower 2.2 Docs are Live.
While prior versions of the Ansible Tower documentation focused on a single PDF, we've gone in a different direction for this release. You will still have all of the great content available from earlier releases, but in a documentation set comprised of guides focused on getting you going, installation and reference, administration, and more. I have to say that all of the outstanding documentation that was created for prior versions gave me a strong foundation to work with for this release and I'm grateful for the hard work put in before I joined the Ansible team.
With Ansible Tower 2.2, we are ensuring that access to HTML as well as PDF versions of the Tower documents are easily available from the docs website. Our Ansible Tower HTML documents also look and feel more similar to the Ansible documentation available online that you've come to know and love. And, they've been indexed to help you find the information you need as quickly as possible.
First, we're introducing Ansible Tower to new users with our Quick Installation and Quick Setup Guides. These manuals are geared toward getting Ansible Tower installed and setup to the point of running a simple playbook. They Continue reading
Tower 2.2 is Here
We’re happy to announce that Ansible Tower 2.2 is now available.
Ansible Tower is the console and service that builds on the solid foundation of Ansible’s simple automation to bring the control, security, and delegation you need to spread automation across your IT infrastructure. We’ve worked hard to update Tower to bring new capabilities to our users. I’ve talked about these some when I discussed how Tower 2.2 was coming soon - now I’d like to go into a little more detail.
Refreshed UI with Setup Mode
We’ve talked to many of our customers who use Tower on an everyday basis. And the continuing refrain is:
“Foreground the stuff we need every day. Background what we don’t.”
We’ve started that process with Tower 2.2. First, you’ll notice the changes on the dashboard, where we’ve removed extraneous graphs so you can concentrate on the important information - are your hosts OK, and are your jobs succeeding. Plus, you’ll see lists of both recent completed jobs, and recently used playbooks.
We’ve also added sparklines to the display of job templates so that wherever you’re seeing your job templates, you have an easy visual display of how that job Continue reading
New Apt and Yum Repos
written by Jessie Frazelle, Core Maintainer at Docker, Inc. TLDR; UPDATE your Docker apt repo source list if you want to be able to get the latest Docker We have a yum repo FINALLY for rpms EVERYONE GETS A DYNAMIC … ContinuedOpen Container Format Progress Report
Follow Up from Open Container Initiative (formerly Project) Announcement of 6/22 written by Michael Crosby, Chief Maintainer of Docker, Inc. Approximately one month ago, we announced the creation of the Open Container Initiative*, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation … ContinuedOpen Governance and Collaboration in the Ecosystem is #Trending
Docker is a Founding Member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) written by Ben Golub, CEO of Docker, Inc. The past four weeks has been unparalleled in terms of open, collaborative activity among the ecosystem around container-based technologies. It … ContinuedAnnouncing Docker Global Hack Day #3
The next Docker Global Hack Day will run from Wednesday, September 16th through Monday, September 21st! Docker Global Hack Day #1 and #2 were a big success thanks to you, and we expect this year to be even better and … ContinuedDocker Online Meetup #22: Docker Networking
“We’ll do for Networking, what Docker did for Compute” Building on top of his talk at DockerCon 2015, Jana Radhakrishnan, Lead Software Engineer at Docker, does a deep dive into Docker Networking with additional demos and insights on the product roadmap. Below is the recorded … ContinuedYour Docker Agenda for OSCON
Heading to OSCON this year? So are we! Below are our picks for the presentations not to miss at the conference. Click on the date below to jump ahead to the talks on a specific day or scroll down to … ContinuedOver 200 Docker Meetups!
Big thank you to our Docker community for the support in helping us grow to now over 200 Docker meetup groups! Without all of the Docker meetup organizers, sponsors, speakers and attendees, none of this would be possible – we are … ContinuedTechnology Short Take #52
Welcome to Technology Short Take #52, the latest collection of news, links, and articles from around the web on data center technologies.
Networking
- Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? See this. You might also find it useful to review this OVN presentation from the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube.
- QualiSystems has a series of articles on open networking standards. A couple of the articles really jumped out at me—part 2 covers Open vSwitch, part 3 discusses OpenStack, part 4 discusses OpenFlow, and part 6 talks about OVSDB. There are also posts on OpenDaylight and OpFlex as well.
- P4 is getting all the attention in the SDN world these days. What is P4? Craig Matsumoto has an overview at SDx Central; the “TL;DR” is that P4 is a high-level language aimed at describing how data plane devices process packets. If you want even more detail, then head over to the P4.org site for more information.
- Jason Edelman, whose focus has been on network automation, recently posted an article on programming an ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) Continue reading
Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps Part 3: The Third Way – Culture of Continuous Experimentation and Learning
written by John Willis, Evangelist at Docker The Third Way of DevOps completes the full cycle. It has also been referred to as just “Continuous Learning”. In DevOps speak, we sometimes allude to the word Kaizen as a method of … ContinuedRecap of Contributor Summit @ DockerCon 2015
The Docker Project had its first ever contributor summit the day after DockerCon 2015. We brought together the most active contributors from the many different Docker projects for a one day summit where the community gathered together to meet in person … ContinuedDockerCon 2015 Videos: Day 2 of Culture
Additional videos from this year’s DockerCon conference are now available! Below are the recorded video and slides from the sessions on Day 2 in the Culture track at DockerCon 2015. How to create a new education in the digital world – Gaetan … ContinuedDocker Tutorial 13 – Getting Started with the New Experimental Docker Networking
This is a casual Docker tutorial series. We will start out first with very simple sessions on how to install and use the docker run command. In future videos we will hit more advanced topics. This latest video gives an … ContinuedDockerCon 2015 Videos: Day 1 of Culture
More videos from the DockerCon 2015 conference are now available! Below are the recorded video and slides from the sessions on Day 2 in the Use Case track at DockerCon 2015. We will publish the remaining videos later this week on the blog – … ContinuedAnsible/AWS/Red Hat Webinar with DLT
The Federal Cloud First policy mandates that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. But how can you safely and reliably begin to deploy and manage your Red Hat instances at cloud scale? With IT automation, you can more easily deploy and manage your Red Hat instances in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.
In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to:
- Automate the creation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based AWS instances
- Apply a security baseline to the instances
- Deploy and manage an application
Who Should Attend: Those in the public sector who are working to move to the cloud
Why Attend: Regardless of where you are in the cloud adoption process, leveraging IT automation can help smooth the transition to the cloud.
Presenter: Justin Nemmers, director public sector at Ansible
Date & Time: Thursday, July 23, at 2PM Eastern
Ansible June Training Recordings
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