Using Packer and Ansible to Build Virtual Machines

At March's DevOps RVA meetup Brian Knight (https://www.meetup.com/DevOps-RVA/members/51384452/) will give a presentation on Packer (https://packer.io/) and Ansible (http://www.ansible.com/). The abstract for his presentation is below:

Packer lets you build Virtual Machine Images for different providers from one json file. You can use the same file and commands to build an image on AWS, Digital Ocean or for VirtualBox and Vagrant. This makes it possible to use exactly the same system for development which you then create in production. Ansible can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Combined, these two tools give you the power to quickly and reliably build (and rebuild) infrastructures based on testable code. This presentation will introduce Packer and Ansible and demonstrate how they can be used together to create and application stack.

Owen Zanzal from DevOpsCV (https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsCV/) will also give a short talk on commanding Ansible from HipChat (one example of ChatOps). Check out his slides (http://agento3.me/awesomeops) in advance.

Hope to see you there!

We'll kick off the presentation at 6:30.