Over the eight years since its inception, Ansible has become wildly successful. The core maintainers know that the workload to keep accepting modules has outgrown the model, so there are large changes afoot. If you get time to read only one thing in this edition of Ansible around the web, make it Jeff Geerling's post on collections. Otherwise, there's a tasty selection of articles on complex environments and how to lay out Ansible to service them, SAP HANA, and building RPMs. Enjoy!
If you spot an interesting Ansible story on your travels, please send us the link via Mark on Twitter, and the Ansible Community team will curate the best submissions.
Articles
Changes are coming to the way Ansible is shipped. Collections are a major part of that change. Read Jeff Geerling's extensive post about what to expect. We've also found articles on people's experiences with topics ranging from packaging to complex environment layouts:
Collections signal major shift in Ansible ecosystem
Multi-environment Ansible layout: This is part two; it's worth reading part one, which is linked at the head of the post.
ICYMI: Here on Opensource.com, 3 lessons I've learned writing Ansible playbooks
Ansible + Python = Automated RPM
Automating SAP HANA using Ansible (there is also a part 2)
Videos
Set up Ansible and write your first playbook, plus how to manage Windows from Tower:
How to install Ansible and write your first playbook
Ansible Tower for Windows: Installing software, running Powershell scripts
Meetups
A selection of the meetups that took place this month:
Across the US: Durham, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, and Virginia
In Europe: Zurich, Benelux, Poland; and Dresden (which even managed two meetups in February)
And in the southern hemisphere: Melbourne
Happy person of the month
Yesterday I played with @ansible for the first time... I loved it!!! #automation #networking #labeveryday
— A.J. Murray (@noblinkyblinky) February 23, 2020
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