Lightning Talk: Scalable server management with Ansible

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Ansible is a server management tool on many OS platforms. It comes with a declarative semantics whereby you state what you want on the server instead of providing steps to reach there. This will save the effort to the lengthy and error prone wrangling of lines of conditionals in bash. In this talk, we will explore together how Ansible can make our life easier.

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Topic: Scalable server management with Ansible

WIIFY: With Ansible, you write what you want instead of how you get what you want.

Key Points:

• Ansible is scalable
• Ansible is idempotent
• Ansible is better than scripting as it is declarative and therefore less error-prone
• Ansible is better than Chef and Puppet because
  • Ansible is agent-less
  • Ansible is YAML and Python

Impact:

Know: Ansible's features and interface
Believe: Ansible is better than scripting and its competitors like Chef and Puppet
Do: Start using Ansible to configure machines
Slides: CS3282 Lightning Talk 2.pptx

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Slides uploaded @damithc

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Updated talk for round C here