[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services
Peter Baumgarten
me at peter-baumgarten.com
Tue Jun 16 05:39:49 UTC 2015
As in this Thursday?
On Jun 15, 2015 19:35, "sten" <me at sud0.com> wrote:
> 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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