[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services
sten
me at sud0.com
Tue Jun 16 00:35:22 UTC 2015
I think the 18th probably works best for me, does that work for everyone
else?
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
> : ) 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:
>
>
> 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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