A look at Ansible for server configuration management

Ansible describes itself as "the simplest way to automate apps and IT infrastructure" and it's something that a handful of system administrators and developers in UIS have been experimenting with, so far to good effect. It takes the idea of building and managing servers by writing scripts one stage further by simplifying writing those scripts and by providing an environment to orchestrate running them on multiple servers at the same time. As such it fills a similar niche as Chef, Puppet and Saltstack, but comes with some unique selling points such as the ability to easily orchestrate changes that involve multiple servers.

In this talk, Jon will try to give you some idea how Ansible works, what it's good for (and where it doesn't work so well), and what it's already doing in UIS. There's a good chance there will be some live demonstrations...

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