In this episode I talk to James Cammarata, head of Ansible core engineering to discuss the Ansible project.

We discuss how it’s used as a config management tool in both a push/pull scenario, how Ansible can be used as a deployment tool and an orchestrator. We touch on the terminology, Red Hat’s acquisition, ideal use cases, how to get started with Ansible, Ansible vs. Puppet and so much more.

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Shownotes

• You can find James as @thejimic on Twitter


• Ansible mailing lists: ansible-project (general) and ansible-devel (for, you know, devs)


• Ansible IRC channels


• Official Ansible website: Ansible.com


• Red Hat acquires Ansible: press release


• Ansible Playbooks


• YAML syntax


• Getting started with Ansible: 30 minute introduction video


• Development Modules in Ansible


• How to deploy an application with Ansible


• Ansible 2.0 release


• The Cobbler project


• cron.weekly newsletter

Feedback? Let me know via syscast@ttias.be or at @mattiasgeniar on Twitter.

A special thanks for Serge van Ginderachter (@svg on Twitter) for helping prepare this show.