[Discuss] Meeting Announcement: Saturday, July 18th at 2:00pm

sten me at sud0.com
Sat Jul 18 15:01:19 UTC 2015


Yep, that'll work for sure.
On Jul 18, 2015 9:59 AM, "Mason" <masond at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would having a Vagrant scaffold in the ansible repo help? I ask because
> I've made and worked with a few for puppet repos I manage.
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:58 PM sten <me at sud0.com> wrote:
>
>> One more thing, if you want to test Ansible locally (vs waiting for us to
>> merge a PR), it's easiest to have a VM that you can mess with, destroy and
>> rebuild quickly. In virt-manager, I keep a bare RHEL7 snapshot that I
>> clone, fire up, break, destroy, repeat.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:33 AM, sten <me at sud0.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, all,
>>>
>>> So, the meeting tomorrow is a hackfest. We'll be creating Ansible roles
>>> and playbooks, and sending them to the ChicagoLUG Github repo to be
>>> deployed.
>>>
>>> In order to get the most out of the 'fest, you should have the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> - a Github account[1]
>>> - a laptop with Git installed
>>> - a text editor you're comfortable with installed on said laptop - bonus
>>> points if it has YAML and Python syntax highlighting. I'll be using VIM,
>>> because I'm old, Geany works if you don't already have a preference. If
>>> you're using Notepad on Windows, I might mock you, but you'll probably
>>> still be able to participate.
>>>
>>> For bonus points, review these:
>>>
>>> Git setup: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git/
>>> How to fork a Github repo: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/
>>> How to use pull requests:
>>> https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/
>>> Ansible introduction: http://docs.ansible.com/intro.html
>>> Ansible Playbooks introduction:
>>> http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_intro.html
>>>
>>> I'll cover the basics of the Git -> Github -> Ansible workflow at the
>>> start of the meeting, but I'm expecting to spend most of the time working
>>> with people to get systems built and configured in the ChicagoLUG domain
>>> with Ansible.
>>>
>>> [1] We can debate the merits of using a proprietary, centralized service
>>> to host our open-source code in a distributed source management system
>>> after we've had way too much beer.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> This note is to confirm our next formal meeting for Saturday, July 18th,
>>>> at 2:00pm. We'll be meeting at Pumping Station: One [0].
>>>>
>>>> By going to this meeting you'll have a chance to learn about Ansible,
>>>> and will also gain experience using it. Sten Turpin will lead an Ansible
>>>> talk and Q&A session, and we'll follow that up with time to configure
>>>> ChicagoLUG infrastructure with Ansible.
>>>>
>>>> Details are up on our website [1] and Meetup.com [2] page. RSVPs on our
>>>> Meetup.com are encouraged.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you soon!
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [0] https://chicagolug.org/locations/psone.html
>>>> [1] https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2015-07-18.html
>>>> [2]
>>>> http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Linux-Users-Group/events/223379774/
>>>>
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