Ansible Tower 1.4.8: Scheduled Actions & Vault
Ansible Tower 1.4.8 is now released and available for download. Scheduled Actions With Tower 1.4.8, Ansible playbook jobs, inventory synchronization, and project source control updates can now be...
View ArticleFixing Heartbleed with Ansible
It's cute when bugs get their own anthropomorphized home pages, though Heartbleed wasn't even close to cute - it was one of the absolutely worst OpenSSL vulnerabilities in a long time. We won't be...
View ArticleConfessions of a Full Stack DevOp
In an interesting post from Jeff Knupp, he laments the increasing tendancy for development and operations roles to merge into one: Rather than temporarily taking on a single role for a short period...
View ArticleOrchestration, You Keep Using That Word
“Orchestration” is a commonly used word in IT automation. Unfortunately, it is often used to mean many completely different things, reducing the importance of understanding the key concepts. At...
View ArticleAnsible 1.6 adds 30+ new modules
Today we are happy to release Ansible 1.6, which adds over 30+ new core modules to the open source automation system, in addition to incorporating numerous new options, upgrades, fixes, and...
View ArticleAnsible Community Momentum Continues with the Hiring of Greg DeKoenigsberg
In a span of just two years, Ansible has grown to be the most popular open source IT automation project on GitHub. We have new contributors on a daily basis, an IRC channel nearing 1000 members, and...
View ArticleWindows Is Coming
The world of IT is dark and full of terrors. One of those terrors is the idea of a giant commercial management application that tries to manage Windows like Linux, or Linux like Windows. The threat of...
View ArticleAnsible Performance Tuning (for Fun and Profit)
Ansible is a simple but feature complete way to automate IT workflow on systems without installing any management agents on them. Many people who have not tried Ansible will think an SSH-based...
View ArticleThe New Ansible Tower Command Line Tool
Today we're happy to announce a new update to Ansible Tower CLI (link) that provides near 100% coverage of all REST functions within Ansible Tower from a CLI perspective. The CLI tool can also be...
View ArticleAnsible 1.7 is released - Windows beta and more!
Today we're releasing Ansible 1.7, another major release of Ansible! Following our important Van Halen-based codename scheme, 1.7 is "Summer Nights", and 1.8 will be "You Really Got Me" Ansible 1.7...
View ArticleTower 2.0: Supercharging the Ansible Experience
Tower 2.0 is our biggest release so far, and focuses on supercharging the day to day Ansible experience -- creating the best possible environment for a team using Ansible. It completely...
View ArticleSome of Our Favorite Ansible Galaxy Content
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been tweeting about some of the great Ansible content that our users have created at Ansible Galaxy. Sign-up for an Ansible Galaxy account to start discovering,...
View ArticleAnsible On the Road: September
We are traveling all over the world to Ansible meet-ups and we'd love to meet you. Check the list below to see where we will be this month. We'll be loaded up with cool Ansible Swag, so be sure to...
View ArticleAnsibleFest San Francisco Speakers
We are excited to announce the speakers who will be at AnsibleFest in San Francico this October. FEATURED ANSIBLEFEST SPEAKERS Michael DeHaan, Ansible - Welcome to AnsibleFest - What's New In...
View ArticleProvisioning an Autoscaling Infrastructure using Ansible
About Autoscaling The concepts behind Amazon's Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) are very promising. Who wouldn't want to have their infrastructure scale automatically with increases and decreases of demand?...
View ArticleImmutable Systems and Ansible - Building and Deploying AMIs to AutoScaling...
As discussed in the previous blog post, there are multiple ways to use AWS AutoScaling groups with Ansible. Previously we showed how you can use Ansible Tower's provisioning callback mechanism to...
View ArticleAnsible Receives High Praise
Jay Lyman of 451 Research released his report on the impact of Ansible within the provisioning and IT automation space. "Ansible offers a solid, modern tool for automation and devops that benefits...
View ArticleNew Case Study: NASA and Ansible Tower
In our latest case study we show how NASA uses Ansible Tower to better manage their environment, provide better security as well as to increase efficiency. What is your business challenge? "NASA...
View ArticleAnsible: Being the Glue So You Don't Have To
A modern IT infrastructure is a complex beast. In 1995 a website often consisted of a single physical server serving static content and a few CGI scripts. Today a standard web site can include any...
View ArticleOn the road with Greg DeKoenigsberg
If you haven't met Greg DeKoenigsberg and love Ansible, don't worry, you will. Greg joined Ansible 3 months ago and has already been busy travelling the globe meeting with Ansible fans at Ansible...
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