[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

[Joseph Wegner]

On 05/31/2015 09:37 PM, Peter Baumgarten wrote:
> 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 <mailto:me at sud0.com>>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On May 29, 2015 07:07, "Jim Campbell" <jcampbell at gnome.org
>     <mailto:jcampbell at gnome.org>> wrote:
> 
>         __
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>         On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 06:42 AM, meg ford wrote:
>>         Hi Sten,
>>         On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:41 AM, meg ford <meg387 at gmail.com
>>         <mailto:meg387 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Forwarding from the old list:
>>             On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:32 AM, sten <me at sud0.com
>>             <mailto:me at sud0.com>> wrote:
>>              
>>
>>                 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 <http://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 <http://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? 
>>
>>              
>>
>>          
>>         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? 
> 
> 
> 
>     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.
> 
>      
> 
>          
>         Jim
>          
>          

I would definitely be interested in attending a hackfest. We're working
on making some Ansible playbooks at work for provisioning RHEL 7 VMs, so
it would be great to see an example of how others are using these tools.

-Joe