Ansible Image Bakeries: Best Practices & Pitfalls

Happy Cyber Monday Ansiblers!

Come and join us next Weds Dec 5th for a fun evening with Jenkins! (This is probably the best deal you've gotten all day, FREE event with pizza to boot!)

In this talk, Richard Bullington-Mcguire will discuss using Ansible, Packer, and Jenkins to create an image bakery pipeline and image bakery patterns that will allow you to support both immutable infrastructure deployments with containers and/or virtual machine images with deployment scripts.

Richard will be sharing best practices for building pipelines such as creating tests for the baked images. He will also show some tricks and techniques to work around some nasty provisioning challenges, such as splitting a slow Ansible deployment in two, and he will demonstrate how to scale out a working system.

Come and learn how you can gain speed and efficiency in scale-out deployments and work around some idempotency challenges using Jenkins, Packer, Ansible, Terraform, EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, and AWS CodeDeploy (This will be especially useful for those folks who have legacy apps to support!)

=== Speaker Bio ===
Richard Bullington-McGuire is Principal Architect at Modus Create. (https://moduscreate.com/) Richard is a serial entrepreneur and versatile technologist with experience in agile processes, software development, system architecture, devops, mobile computing, for-profit and non-profit start-up companies, and design. He is a member of both IEEE and ACM.

=== Agenda ===

• 6:30 - 7pm: Social with Pizza
• 7pm: Richard will present his talk.
  Late comers might not be let in after 7pm. :( If you know you'll be late that evening let us know ahead of time! ( You can reach me here https://www.meetup.com/members/13879327/ )

=== Sponsor ===
We thank RapidSOS (https://www.rapidsos.com/) once again for opening their space up for us to invade.

See you all on Weds 12/5 for our last 2018 hurrah!
Connie & Dan