[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services
sten
me at sud0.com
Tue Jun 9 04:23:53 UTC 2015
That weekend is Father's Day, so I expect my 18-month old boy will be
showering me with affection and cooking me dinner. Or, he might crap on me,
it kind of all runs together at this age.
That is to say, I'd rather push to July.
-Sten
On Jun 8, 2015 23:05, "Jim Campbell" <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
> Hi Sten,
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015, at 02:19 PM, Jim Campbell wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015, at 02:10 PM, sten wrote:
>
>
> On Jun 1, 2015 11:25 AM, "Jim Campbell" <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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>
> Sorry, I meant to type the 27th. The 20th could work for me, as well.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Do you think you'd be free on the 20th, or would it be better to push
> things back to July? No worries either way. I personally think that
> moving things back to July would be fine for this meeting.
>
> As a note to the group, we had some good interactions with the Free Geek
> Chicago folks this weekend. Two of their members made it out to our
> Programming Tonight event on Friday (which had about 6-7 people there), and
> I made it over to their standing Saturday hackfest. They had a good bunch
> of people working on changing their website over to Jekyll. Joining them
> for those kinds of Saturday Hackings could make for good "Linux Office
> Hours", if people are interested. What do folks think about that?
>
> Looking ahead to the future, we're likely going to have our August meeting
> on August 15th. Jorge Castro from the Canonical Server team is free to
> give a talk on JuJu that weekend.
>
> Jim
>
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