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<body><div>Hi All,<br></div>
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<div>On Mon, Jun 1, 2015, at 02:10 PM, sten wrote:<br></div>
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On Jun 1, 2015 11:25 AM, "Jim Campbell" <<a href="mailto:jcampbell@gnome.org">jcampbell@gnome.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sun, May 31, 2015, at 11:32 PM, Joseph Wegner wrote:<br>
> > On 05/31/2015 09:37 PM, Peter Baumgarten wrote:<br>
> > > I would be interested in participating in a hackfest. As a puppet<br>
> > > <<a href="https://puppetlabs.com/">https://puppetlabs.com/</a>> user myself I have been meaning to try out<br>
> > > either ansible <<a href="http://www.ansible.com">http://www.ansible.com</a>> or salt <<a href="http://saltstack.com">http://saltstack.com</a>>.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:02 PM, sten <<a href="mailto:me@sud0.com">me@sud0.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:me@sud0.com">me@sud0.com</a>>><br>
> > > wrote:<br>
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> > > On May 29, 2015 07:07, "Jim Campbell" <<a href="mailto:jcampbell@gnome.org">jcampbell@gnome.org</a><br>
> > > <mailto:<a href="mailto:jcampbell@gnome.org">jcampbell@gnome.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> > > On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 06:42 AM, meg ford wrote:<br>
> > >> Hi Sten,<br>
> > >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:41 AM, meg ford <<a href="mailto:meg387@gmail.com">meg387@gmail.com</a><br>
> > >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:meg387@gmail.com">meg387@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Forwarding from the old list:<br>
> > >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:32 AM, sten <<a href="mailto:me@sud0.com">me@sud0.com</a><br>
> > >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:me@sud0.com">me@sud0.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> > >> Hi, all,<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> I've been talking with Jim offline about this, but we<br>
> > >> wanted to talk about it on-list before making any<br>
> > >> changes.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Jim can correct me here, but I understand everything<br>
> > >> under <a href="http://chicagolug.org">chicagolug.org</a> <<a href="http://chicagolug.org">http://chicagolug.org</a>> runs on a<br>
> > >> single Ubuntu instance on Rackspace. Since Rackspace<br>
> > >> is being so generous to the LUG, I'd like to split<br>
> > >> that out into multiple hosts, and do some HA and<br>
> > >> redundancy, and add at least one new service.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> I'd also like to build it with Ansible, so it can be<br>
> > >> rebuilt from scratch easily if needed.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> I've been thinking I'd like to do an Ansible<br>
> > >> presentation for the LUG, since I've been doing a lot<br>
> > >> with Ansible at work, particularly for OpenShift V3<br>
> > >> (v3 is all built and managed with ansible, see<br>
> > >> <a href="https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/">https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/</a>), but<br>
> > >> if we re-build <a href="http://chicagolug.org">chicagolug.org</a> <<a href="http://chicagolug.org">http://chicagolug.org</a>><br>
> > >> with Ansible, we can do something more collaborative<br>
> > >> and do it via the email list and pull requests.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> What if we started with 1 new service, I'm thinking<br>
> > >> <a href="http://getkaiwa.com/">http://getkaiwa.com/</a> - this would run on a new<br>
> > >> Rackspace instance and point to the existing Prosody<br>
> > >> server.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> I'd work with Jim and Meg to put together a new repo<br>
> > >> under the chicagolug github account, and we could do<br>
> > >> PRs to put together an Ansible role for Kaiwa and a<br>
> > >> playbook to create the Rackspace instance.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> From there, we could add more roles and more playbooks<br>
> > >> and eventually get all the chicagolug services managed<br>
> > >> in Git.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Any interest? Any thoughts?<br>
> > >><br>
> > >><br>
> > >><br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Thanks for offering to help out with this! Is there any<br>
> > >> interest in the LUG having a hackfest around it? I know that<br>
> > >> your free time is currently somewhat limited, but if you do<br>
> > >> have time it might be cool to have a basic demo for those who<br>
> > >> haven't used Ansible before, followed by a few hours of<br>
> > >> collaborative work time. How do other people feel about it?<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > I'd be happy to do that. Maybe I'll put together a quick<br>
> > > presentation on the basics and some examples. From there, we can<br>
> > > work on building out a working set of services.<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Jim<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> ><br>
> > I would definitely be interested in attending a hackfest. We're working<br>
> > on making some Ansible playbooks at work for provisioning RHEL 7 VMs, so<br>
> > it would be great to see an example of how others are using these tools.<br>
> ><br>
> > -Joe<br>
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> Would June 29th work for this? Sten, would you be free then and able to<br>
> give a talk on this?</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">The 29th is a Monday, which might actually work for me, but I'm assuming that's not what you meant.. I can't do the 27th. I'm not sure about the 21st yet. <br></p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p>If people want to get a head start, the Ansible documentation is great. There's an intro here: <a href="http://docs.ansible.com/intro.html">http://docs.ansible.com/intro.html</a> <br></p><p><br></p><p>When I learned Ansible, I basically took an evening and went through that intro, and after that evening felt like I had a good handle on how to work with the tool. <br></p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">Others? (If anyone won't be free then, but still<br>
> wants to participate, please let us know an alternate date).<br>
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> What I'm thinking is that, for this month, we could use our monthly<br>
> meeting time to have a demo / discussion of how Ansible works, and then<br>
> use our remaining time to actually work on LUG infrastructure + Ansible.<br>
> Having a meeting later in the month would give us time to plan things<br>
> out on the list, review Ansible docs / tutorials, get started on things,<br>
> etc.<br>
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> Does this sound good?<br>
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> Jim<br>
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<div>Sorry, I meant to type the 27th. The 20th could work for me, as well.<br></div>
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<div>Jim</div>
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