[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

[Peter Baumgarten]

I would be interested in participating in a hackfest.  As a puppet
<https://puppetlabs.com/> user myself I have been meaning to try out either
ansible <http://www.ansible.com> or salt <http://saltstack.com>.

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:02 PM, sten <me at sud0.com> wrote:

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> On May 29, 2015 07:07, "Jim Campbell" <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 06:42 AM, meg ford wrote:
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>> Hi Sten,
>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:41 AM, meg ford <meg387 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Forwarding from the old list:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:32 AM, sten <me at sud0.com> wrote:
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>> Hi, all,
>>
>> I've been talking with Jim offline about this, but we wanted to talk
>> about it on-list before making any changes.
>>
>>  Jim can correct me here, but I understand everything under
>> chicagolug.org runs on a single Ubuntu instance on Rackspace. Since
>> Rackspace is being so generous to the LUG, I'd like to split that out into
>> multiple hosts, and do some HA and redundancy, and add at least one new
>> service.
>>
>>  I'd also like to build it with Ansible, so it can be rebuilt from
>> scratch easily if needed.
>>
>>  I've been thinking I'd like to do an Ansible presentation for the LUG,
>> since I've been doing a lot with Ansible at work, particularly for
>> OpenShift V3 (v3 is all built and managed with ansible, see
>> https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/), but if we re-build
>> chicagolug.org with Ansible, we can do something more collaborative and
>> do it via the email list and pull requests.
>>
>>  What if we started with 1 new service, I'm thinking http://getkaiwa.com/
>> - this would run on a new Rackspace instance and point to the existing
>> Prosody server.
>>
>>  I'd work with Jim and Meg to put together a new repo under the
>> chicagolug github account, and we could do PRs to put together an Ansible
>> role for Kaiwa and a playbook to create the Rackspace instance.
>>
>>  From there, we could add more roles and more playbooks and eventually
>> get all the chicagolug services managed in Git.
>>
>> Any interest? Any thoughts?
>>
>>
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>>
>> Thanks for offering to help out with this! Is there any interest in the
>> LUG having a hackfest around it? I know that your free time is currently
>> somewhat limited, but if you do have time it might be cool to have a basic
>> demo for those who haven't used Ansible before, followed by a few hours of
>> collaborative work time. How do other people feel about it?
>>
>>
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> I'd be happy to do that. Maybe I'll put together a quick presentation on
> the basics and some examples. From there, we can work on building out a
> working set of services.
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>>
>> Jim
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