[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

[sten]

On Jun 1, 2015 11:25 AM, "Jim Campbell" <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
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>
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> On Sun, May 31, 2015, at 11:32 PM, Joseph Wegner wrote:
> > 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:
> > >
> > >         __
> > >
> > >         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
>
>
> Would June 29th work for this? Sten, would you be free then and able to
> give a talk on this?


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.

If people want to get a head start, the Ansible documentation is great.
There's an intro here: http://docs.ansible.com/intro.html

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.


Others?  (If anyone won't be free then, but still
> wants to participate, please let us know an alternate date).
>
> What I'm thinking is that, for this month, we could use our monthly
> meeting time to have a demo / discussion of how Ansible works, and then
> use our remaining time to actually work on LUG infrastructure + Ansible.
>  Having a meeting later in the month would give us time to plan things
> out on the list, review Ansible docs / tutorials, get started on things,
> etc.
>
> Does this sound good?
>
> Jim
>
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