Ansible for Public Cloud (Focus on AWS)

Ansible is a great tool for configuration management and other ad hoc orchestration tasks, but it can do a lot to help provision your cloud infra as well! I want to be clear up front, I've leveraged Ansible to drive AWS infrastructure and the module support here is very good. I have not used Ansible for Azure or GCP, but many of the strategies I've used translate well.

Some of the things I'll get into during this session include....

o Setting up your Ansible controller to interact with AWS
o Examining 3 different strategies for inventories (1 static and 2 dynamic)
o High level discussion of variable structure and advice on how to grow sanely over time
o Example implementations of some common interactions with VPC, EC2, ELBs, Route53 and Cloudwatch
o Open question period on other AWS services that you might want to target
o A few other tips, tricks, and lessons I've learned along the way

Presented by... Adam Johnson. He's been a software developer for over 10 years. Most of his experience has been as an enterprise full stack developer, but 4 years ago he caught the DevOps bug and never looked back! His DevOps journey has spanned two very different settings; first driving change through a larger software organization that was struggling to get a new platform up and running and for the last 2 years it has meant building sound DevOps practices into a rapidly growing local startup - Kipsu.

In both of these settings he used Ansible to bring consistency and velocity to his own workflow and evangelized it's use across development teams. In his current role he's expanded the use of Ansible to drive configuration-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring-as-code, ci-as-code and data-pipelines-as-code. All the things must be code!

Outside of work he likes news, politics, econ, ultimate frisbee, biking, golf and vaporwave.

We will open the door at 6:30

Have drinks and pizza until 7:00, then the talk will start.

Hope to see you there!

Thanks.

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