[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

Tue Jun 9 04:29:43 UTC 2015

: )  Of course.  Let  us know what date(s) in July would work best for
: you. I'm thinking maybe the 18th or 25th (leaving the weekend of the
: 4th and 11th open for celebrating America), but I could be forgetting
: about some other major holiday that people like to celebrate.  : )

Jim

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015, at 11:23 PM, sten wrote:
> 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:
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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
>>>>
> > > <https://puppetlabs.com/> user myself I have been meaning to
> > > try out
>>>>
> > > either ansible <http://www.ansible.com> or salt
> > > <http://saltstack.com>.
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> > >
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> > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:02 PM, sten <me at sud0.com
> > > <mailto:me at sud0.com>>
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> > > wrote:
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> > >
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> > >
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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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> > >
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> > >__
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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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> > >>
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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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> > >>
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> > >>
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> > >>Hi, all,
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> > >>
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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
>>>>
> > >>under chicagolug.org <http://chicagolug.org> runs on a
>>>>
> > >>single Ubuntu instance on Rackspace. Since Rackspace
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> > >>is being so generous to the LUG, I'd like to split
>>>>
> > >>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
>>>>
> > >>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
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> > >>server.
>>>>
> > >>
>>>>
> > >>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
>>>>
> > >>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.
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> > >>
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> > >>Any interest? Any thoughts?
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> > >>
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> > >>
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> > >>
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> > >>
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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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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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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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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >Jim
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> > >
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> > >
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> >
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> > 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
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> > it would be great to see an example of how others are using these
> > tools.
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> >
>>>>
> > -Joe
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> 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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