• Ansible
  • Ansible Vulnerabilities
  • nixCraft
  • Tecmint
  • Unixmen
  • DZone
  • Ansible Container
  • Ansible on Twitter
  • Ansible Support and Forums
  • Is ansible replacing puppet?
  • Ansible Videos, Slides and Podcasts
  • Apache via Ansible
  • WebLogic via Ansible
  • Drupal via Ansible
  • Databases via Ansible
  • MySQL via Ansible
  • PostgreSQL via Ansible
  • Oracle via Ansible
  • Elasticsearch via Ansible
  • Provisioning Docker containers with Ansible
  • Security with Ansible
  • Windows Automation with Ansible
  • Network Automation with Ansible

Impressions from #AnsibleFest London 2016 https://t.co/Xbr1FkkB0q

— Red Hat Community (@redhatopen) febrero 19, 2016

Ansible grows headcount, international presence since Red Hat buyout - Triangle Business Journal https://t.co/bIQYSLeCfc

— Ansible by Red Hat (@ansible) 15 de marzo de 2016

Solid news, @ansible galaxy's web framework is now open sourced! https://t.co/8MCXfgMYit#AnsibleFest

— Jonathan Davila (@DefionsCode) 11 de octubre de 2016

5-minute deployments? It's not a dream, it's a reality at @jcrew w/ a little help from #RedHat & @ansible #RHSummit https://t.co/e4odDhmo7I

— Red Hat, Inc. (@RedHatNews) 1 de julio de 2016

Ansible¶

• docs.ansible.com 🌟🌟🌟🌟
• releases.ansible.com
• fast.wistia.net: Ansible video tutorial
• Ansible, Just Use It - slide
• Ansible playbook to provision a WebLogic Fusion Middleware Domain on RHEL/CentOS 7
• Ansible vs Puppet – Hands-On with Ansible
• Ansible.com Blog - Confessions of a Full Stack DevOp
• Ansible for DevOps, a book on Ansible by Jeff Geerling
  • Ansible by Jeff Geerling - youtube playlist
  • Leanpub Podcast Interview #25: Jeff Geerling
  • drupalvm.com
  • Ansible examples from ansiblefordevops.com - github code 🌟🌟🌟
• Ansible video tutorial at sysadmincasts.com
• Ansible Introduction video tutorial
• PyCon US 2015: Ansible beyond YAML
• DevOps.com: Ansible: Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management
• AnsibleFest San Francisco 2015 Presentations
  • Microservices via Ansible. Deploying services with rollback and error handling, truncating releases, and restarting processes
  • Lessons Automating the Deployment of J.Crew’s Website+
• slideshare.net: Debugging ansible modules
• Asset and lifecycle management using APIC-EM and Ansible. Automate the collection of output from a series of 'show' commands from routers and switches
• Ansible: Top posts of 2015
• How We Use AWS, Ansible, and Packer to Make Deployment Awesome
• Ansible: write and run your first playbook
• Ansible 2.0 Has Arrived and includes over 200 new modules
• Webinar: Ansible 2.0 & Beyond
• Puppet is out, in comes Ansible
• F5 Deployment Automation Demo with Ansible
• Enabling DevOps Approach with Cisco NX-OS and Ansible
• Deploying a Mesos based visual effects studios with Ansible
• Learning DevOps: Automated setup and cloud VM provisioning with Ansible
• SSH Agent Forwarding Configuration with Ansible and Tower 🌟
• Ansible automation glue 🌟🌟🌟 Mark Phillips put together a great demo video (18 minutes) which covers aspects of how powerful and flexible Ansible is as a tool - from machine provisioning to configuration management to code deployment to interacting with various APIs - all in the pursuit of gluing together many components.
• Open Source Alternative to Ansible Tower 🌟
• THE OPEN TOWER PROJECT ansible.com/open-tower 🌟🌟🌟
• Ansible automation heralds move beyond DevOps niche 🌟
• blog.rackspace.com - How to Deploy With Ansible: An Accessible Explanation 🌟🌟
• Playbook Debugger In 2.1 we added a debug strategy. This strategy enables you to invoke a debugger when a task is failed, and check several info, such as the value of a variable. Also, it is possible to update module arguments in the debugger, and run the failed task again with new arguments to consider how you can fix an issue.
• developers.redhat.com: Install Ansible on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 🌟
• opensource.com: Ansible as a gateway to DevOps in the cloud
• ansible.com: AUTOMATING THE PROVISIONING AND CONFIGURATION OF RED HAT MOBILE APPLICATION PLATFORM
• VMware support: A SHINY NEW WAY TO MANAGE VMWARE GUESTS 🌟🌟🌟
• fedoramagazine.org: Using Ansible to Provision Vagrant Boxes
• zdnet.com: Red Hat open sources Ansible Galaxy for all 🌟🌟🌟 Red Hat double-downs on open-sourcing components of its Ansible DevOps program.
• jeffgeerling.com: How I test Ansible configuration on 7 different OSes with Docker
• Fedora Server: Expanding Throughout the Galaxy 🌟🌟
• serversforhackers.com: An Ansible Tutorial 🌟🌟🌟
• ansible.com: Ansible Best Practices, the essentials 🌟🌟🌟
• Shell Scripts vs Ansible: Fight! 🌟🌟🌟
• nixCraft: How to create a new config file in Ansible playbook 🌟🌟🌟
• Ansible role to set up backups using duply in Debian-like systems
• Automatizar instalación de Oracle RAC con Ansible

Ansible Vulnerabilities¶

• CVE-2016-9587: an unpleasant Ansible vulnerability

nixCraft¶

• cyberciti.biz: Linux Tutorial: Install Ansible Configuration Management And IT Automation Tool 🌟🌟🌟

Tecmint¶

• Tecmint: How to Install and Configure ‘Ansible’ Automation Tool for IT Management 🌟🌟🌟
• Tecmint: How to Use Ansible Playbooks to Automate Complex Tasks on Multiple Remote Servers – Part 2 🌟🌟🌟
• Tecmint: Ebook: Introducing the Ansible Setup Guide for Linux 🌟🌟🌟

Unixmen¶

• Unixmen.com: How to install Ansible and Use it in Automation (CentOS) 🌟🌟🌟
• Unixmen.com: Ansible Review: How to easily automate your IT infrastructure 🌟🌟🌟
• Unixmen.com: Ansible playbooks
• Unixmen.com: Ansible install configure and use 🌟🌟🌟

DZone¶

• DZone: Introduction to Ansible Setup in Ubuntu 14.04
• DZone: Ansible Introduction 🌟🌟
• DZone: Part 1: Getting Started with Ansible 🌟🌟🌟
• DZone: Environment Variables with Vagrant and Ansible. How to configure Ansible and Vagrant to use a web proxy server.
• DZone: Managing Dotfiles With Ansible 🌟 How to use Ansible's configuration management tools with zsh configuration.
• DZone: User Management With Ansible 🌟🌟🌟 For the quick and dirty requirement to add specific (and intelligent) users, Chris Short believes that this Ansible role is a good approach.

Open Source Alternative to #Ansible Tower https://t.co/4iv3Wk2zfS

— carlchenet (@carl_chenet) 6 de junio de 2016

.@ansible is the gateway drug to #DevOps. https://t.co/PlURr51Qio @techbeacon

— Steven A. Lowe (@StevenALowe) 15 de marzo de 2016

Whether you have 500 nodes, or many thousands, this document will help you best understand how to maximize Ansible. https://t.co/iBsusAeDH3

— Ansible by Red Hat (@ansible) 28 de marzo de 2016

.@Ansible 2.1 Launches with Network Automation, #Containers, Microsoft Windows, and Azure. https://t.co/DDBjw6MJT4 #Ansible #RedHat

— Red Hat, Inc. (@RedHatNews) 25 de mayo de 2016

#RedHat expands #Ansible with broader container and #Microsoft support: https://t.co/rec8HiPssm via @eWeek

— Red Hat Partners (@RedHatPartners) 7 de junio de 2016

TCP vulnerabilty? Easy to mitigate with @ansible:

- sysctl: name=net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit value=999999999 sysctl_set=yes

— James (@thejimic) 13 de agosto de 2016

How I test Ansible configuration on 7 different OSes with Docker
#ICYMI https://t.co/v2REjFXCrv #ansible #docker

— Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy) 5 de octubre de 2016

New blog post on Fedora Server and Ansible Galaxy:https://t.co/KPU3Uklq3t

— Stephen Gallagher (@sgallagh_redhat) 13 de octubre de 2016

Ansible Container¶

• Ansible Container is a tool to build Docker images and orchestrate containers using only Ansible playbooks 🌟🌟
• ansible.com/ansible-container
• 5 Reasons We Started the Ansible Container Project 🌟🌟🌟

Yeah! No more hard coded shell scripts into Dockerfiles. @ansible to the rescue: https://t.co/YaBFHjLP8J

— Ghe Rivero (@GheRivero) 6 de junio de 2016

Holy shit https://t.co/AeFJ2EPmG8 looks amazing I was just going to re-provision some of my servers that use docker, this will help a lot!!

— Jurmarcus (@jurmarcusallen) 3 de junio de 2016

Ansible on Twitter¶

• twitter.com/ansible
• twitter.com/ansible4devops
  • twitter.com/geerlingguy
• twitter.com/ansiblebook
• twitter.com/AnsibleBenelux
• twitter.com/ansible_berlin
• twitter.com/AnsibleBCN

Ansible Support and Forums¶

• Ansible Support
• Ansible subreddit 🌟🌟🌟🌟
• ansible-tips-and-tricks.readthedocs.org
• ansible-flow.readthedocs.org
• Google Groups ansible-project
• Google Groups ansible-announce 🌟

Is ansible replacing puppet?¶

• redhat subreddit: Is ansible replacing puppet?
• Demo: Chef vs Puppet vs Ansible 🌟🌟🌟
• Are Docker Users Migrating to Ansible and Away from Puppet and Chef?
• Twitter's transition from Puppet to Ansible
• DZone: Puppet or Ansible: How to Choose? 🌟 When choosing between Puppet and Ansible, understanding the design choices can get us past wondering which is better, so we can make an informed decision.

Ansible Videos, Slides and Podcasts¶

• Youtube: Livestream von codecentric AG
  • Speakerdeck: Multi Stage Deployment with Ansible 2016
  • Slideshare: Ansible module development 101. Feb 2016
• Podcast - Ansible: config management & deploying code with James Cammarata from Red Hat 🌟🌟🌟
• Video: ANSIBLE ROLES FOR FUN AND PROFIT Learn how to architect, test, maintain and contribute dozens of roles for your Ansible-powered infrastructure. Jeff Geerling walks you through how he builds roles for flexible, but simple, infrastructure Playbooks used by thousands of developers and sysadmins.)

Podcast: #Ansible: config management & deploying code w/ James Cammarata of #RedHat https://t.co/dy1ln4aJcm #ITautomation

— Red Hat Cloud (@RedHatCloud) 12 de agosto de 2016

Apache via Ansible¶

• middlewaresnippets.blogspot.com - Ansible the Apache HTTP Server

WebLogic via Ansible¶

• middlewaresnippets.blogspot.com - set-up Oracle WebLogic Server environment with Ansible (3 hosts, one control node and two managed nodes)
• blogs.oracle.com - Ansible playbook to provision a WebLogic Fusion Middleware Domain on RHEL/CentOS 7 by Christos Vezalis
  • Using Ansible to install WebLogic 12c R2 (12.2.1) and Fusion Middleware Infastructure on Oracle Linux 7.1
  • Ansible Playbook: install and configure WebLogic server 12c with Oracle Fusion Middleware in RHEL7
  • Ansible playbook: deploy and create a WebLogic 12c R2 Domain with Oracle Fusion Middleware

Drupal via Ansible¶

• drupalvm.com

Databases via Ansible¶

• List of Database Modules
• Ansible Role: MySQL
• Example Ansible playbook that uses the MySQL module

MySQL via Ansible¶

• Ansible and Loading MySQL Databases Part I
  • Ansible and Loading MySQL Databases Part II

PostgreSQL via Ansible¶

• Ansible Loves PostgreSQL

Oracle via Ansible¶

• Nodalpoint.com: Using Ansible to configure a CentOS 7.1 server with Oracle 12c R1 Enterprise Edition Database
  • middlewaresnippets.blogspot.com - How to set-up an Oracle Database with Ansible

Elasticsearch via Ansible¶

• Deploying Elasticsearch with Ansible

Provisioning Docker containers with Ansible¶

• ibm.com: Provisioning Docker containers with Ansible

Security with Ansible¶

• Fixing Heartbleed with Ansible
• Ansible.com shellshock
• Patching your systems for DROWN doesn’t have to be a big deal thanks to Ansible

Windows Automation with Ansible¶

• How Ansible Makes Automating Windows Easier

Ansible 2.0 Windows automation is better and faster than 1.x. Time to upgrade #AnsibleFest pic.twitter.com/7YUxLRAuLX

— tbarr (@tbarr) febrero 18, 2016

How Ansible Makes Automating Windows Easier by @mattdavispdx https://t.co/cvJDKBu1qt pic.twitter.com/TCzkkGteLG

— Ansible by Red Hat (@ansible) marzo 9, 2016

Network Automation with Ansible¶

• ansible.com/networks
• Ansible charges into network automation with Cisco, Juniper But where's Huawei?
• Moving to the DevOps Model with Cisco and Ansible
• ansible.com: Managing your Cisco data center network with ansible
• Arista + Ansible: A Dramatically Simple New Approach
• ansible.com: Ansible network technology preview

. @RedHat @Ansible applies its IT automation capabilities to the network https://t.co/pjHwvSjlKx

— The New Stack (@thenewstack) febrero 18, 2016

Red Hat Brings DevOps to the Network with New Ansible Capabilities https://t.co/QKPt4K6Eqk

— Ansible (@ansible) febrero 18, 2016

Network Automation with @ansible it's easy if you try.... https://t.co/VZVJSmUDqs #netdevops

— CumulusNetworks (@CumulusNetworks) febrero 18, 2016

Why Ansible + Network #AnsibleFest pic.twitter.com/bLaaCFRatv

— tbarr (@tbarr) febrero 18, 2016

Peter Sprygada talks about the new #Ansible #network support at #AnsibleFest - just look at the list! #RedHat pic.twitter.com/H66eV5a7Fn

— liquidat (@liquidat) febrero 18, 2016

Network testing playbooks available in Ansible GitHub #AnsibleFest pic.twitter.com/oF5OQgY8VH

— tbarr (@tbarr) febrero 18, 2016

The future of #Tower will improve support for huge scale installations. #AnsibleFest #RedHat pic.twitter.com/jlxv5DkpXs

— liquidat (@liquidat) febrero 18, 2016

Why Cisco loves @ansible #AnsibleFest pic.twitter.com/SacP0DxZiH

— tbarr (@tbarr) febrero 18, 2016

Cisco slide from #AnsibleFest Better Together pic.twitter.com/gD40Rka8t9

— tbarr (@tbarr) febrero 18, 2016

Moving to the #DevOps model and network automation. Read the blog: https://t.co/A63B0o7tY8 @mscohen @shanecorban pic.twitter.com/Vk15AMDcOT

— Cisco Cloud (@CiscoCloud) febrero 18, 2016

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