Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by soupdiver » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 11:03 AM UTC

Ansible 1.9.0 Released
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Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by WestCoastJustin » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 11:58 AM UTC

Have spent the past few months heavily working with Ansible and would totally recommend it for anyone wanting simple configuration management and orchestration. The barrier to entry is extremely low, because it uses ssh and there are no remote agents, so you can get going pretty quickly. I have an introductory screencast on in @ https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/43-19-minutes-with-ansibl...

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by erichmond » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 12:27 PM UTC

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #2

Have spent the past few months heavily working with Ansible and would totally recommend it for anyone wanting simple configuration management and orchestration. The barrier to entry is extremely low, because it uses ssh and there are no remote agents, so you can get going pretty quickly. I have an introductory screencast on in @ https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/43-19-minutes-with-ansibl...

The other thing that should be noted is that ansible feels like (shell scripting)++. Other competitors I've used needed a much heavier cognitive load to get started.

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by geerlingguy » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 12:47 PM UTC

1.9.0 includes convenient new gluster_volume and haproxy modules (among others) and will also update its DigitalOcean integration to use the v2 API shortly (in 1.9.1 - it's currently using the more annoying v1 API).

If you want to use the latest and greatest, it's easy enough to set up Ansible from source. Otherwise, use brew, apt, yum, or pip (they're all up to date).

P.S. 1.9.0 was released on Mar. 25th, I think there's an older thread on it somewhere around here.

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by UserRights » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 12:50 PM UTC

Does there exist a good playbook for setting up a production-ready mailserver? Thanks!

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by drinchev » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 12:51 PM UTC

I'm really happy they now support "svc", part of D. J. Bernstein DaemonTools [1]. This one really is a killer feature, I'm excited to use.

I'm far closer than ever to not use ssh on my server manually.

1 : http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by ceejayoz » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 1:02 PM UTC

UserRights wrote: post #5

Does there exist a good playbook for setting up a production-ready mailserver? Thanks!

"Production-ready mailserver" is horribly broad (for starters, outgoing mail or incoming mail?), but Ansible Galaxy has lots of mail-related roles. For example, Zabbix: https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/1879

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by izolate » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 1:08 PM UTC

I've learned with Ansible never to be quick to update. There's always something that will break. I've been on 1.7.2 for a while, and will probably think about updating later this year.

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by UserRights » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 1:09 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #7

UserRights wrote: post #5

Does there exist a good playbook for setting up a production-ready mailserver? Thanks!

"Production-ready mailserver" is horribly broad (for starters, outgoing mail or incoming mail?), but Ansible Galaxy has lots of mail-related roles. For example, Zabbix: https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/1879

zabbix is a monitoring solution, I am sure this sets up some kind of outgoing mail, but I was looking for a solution similar to iredmail.

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Post by UserRights » Mon, Apr 06, 2015, 1:24 PM UTC

UserRights wrote: post #5

Does there exist a good playbook for setting up a production-ready mailserver? Thanks!

BTW I found http://debops.org/

But still I think it would be a great idea to have a community playbook for critical things like mailservers where it is so easy to make a mistake and the fight against spammers is so hard to fight when you are only a small group of people or alone.