[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

Mon Jun 1 19:19:48 UTC 2015

Hi All,

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015, at 02:10 PM, sten wrote:
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On Jun 1, 2015 11:25 AM, "Jim Campbell" <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 31, 2015, at 11:32 PM, Joseph Wegner wrote:
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> > On 05/31/2015 09:37 PM, Peter Baumgarten wrote:
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> > > I would be interested in participating in a hackfest.  As a puppet
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> > > <https://puppetlabs.com/> user myself I have been meaning to
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> > > either ansible <http://www.ansible.com> or salt
> > > <http://saltstack.com>.
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> > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:02 PM, sten <me at sud0.com
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> > >On May 29, 2015 07:07, "Jim Campbell" <jcampbell at gnome.org
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> > ><mailto: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,
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> > >>On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:41 AM, meg ford <meg387 at gmail.com
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> > >><mailto:meg387 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > >>Forwarding from the old list:
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> > >>On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:32 AM, sten <me at sud0.com
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> > >><mailto:me at sud0.com>> wrote:
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> > >>Hi, all,
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> > >>I've been talking with Jim offline about this, but we
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> > >>wanted to talk about it on-list before making any
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> > >>changes.
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> > >>Jim can correct me here, but I understand everything
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> > >>under chicagolug.org <http://chicagolug.org> runs on a
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> > >>single Ubuntu instance on Rackspace. Since Rackspace
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> > >>is being so generous to the LUG, I'd like to split
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> > >>that out into multiple hosts, and do some HA and
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> > >>redundancy, and add at least one new service.
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> > >>I'd also like to build it with Ansible, so it can be
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> > >>rebuilt from scratch easily if needed.
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> > >>I've been thinking I'd like to do an Ansible
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> > >>presentation for the LUG, since I've been doing a lot
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> > >>with Ansible at work, particularly for OpenShift V3
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> > >>https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/), but
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> > >>if we re-build chicagolug.org <http://chicagolug.org>
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> > >>with Ansible, we can do something more collaborative
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> > >>and do it via the email list and pull requests.
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> > >>What if we started with 1 new service, I'm thinking
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> > >>http://getkaiwa.com/ - this would run on a new
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> > >>Rackspace instance and point to the existing Prosody
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> > >>server.
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> > >>I'd work with Jim and Meg to put together a new repo
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> > >>under the chicagolug github account, and we could do
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> > >>PRs to put together an Ansible role for Kaiwa and a
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> > >>playbook to create the Rackspace instance.
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> > >>From there, we could add more roles and more playbooks
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> > >>and eventually get all the chicagolug services managed
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> > >>in Git.
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> > >>Any interest? Any thoughts?
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> > >>Thanks for offering to help out with this! Is there any
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> > >>interest in the LUG having a hackfest around it? I know that
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> > >>your free time is currently somewhat limited, but if you do
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> > >>have time it might be cool to have a basic demo for those who
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> > >>haven't used Ansible before, followed by a few hours of
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> > >>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
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> > >presentation on the basics and some examples. From there, we can
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> > >work on building out a working set of services.
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> > >Jim
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> > I would definitely be interested in attending a hackfest. We're
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> > on making some Ansible playbooks at work for provisioning RHEL 7
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> > it would be great to see an example of how others are using these
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> > -Joe
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> Would June 29th work for this? Sten, would you be free then and able
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> 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.

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

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> 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.

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> Others?  (If anyone won't be free then, but still
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> wants to participate, please let us know an alternate date).
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> What I'm thinking is that, for this month, we could use our monthly
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> meeting time to have a demo / discussion of how Ansible works,
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> use our remaining time to actually work on LUG infrastructure +
> Ansible.
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> Having a meeting later in the month would give us time to plan things
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> out on the list, review Ansible docs / tutorials, get started
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> Does this sound good?
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> Jim
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Sorry, I meant to type the 27th.  The 20th could work for me, as well.

Jim
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