[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

Tue Jun 16 05:50:07 UTC 2015

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015, at 12:39 AM, Peter Baumgarten wrote:
> As in this Thursday?

No, we're looking to July.  : )

July 18th would work for me.

> 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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