July 2015 Meeting of the ChicagoLUG

Hi All,

Our July meeting date is set! Our primary focus will be on learning and gaining experience with Ansible, a configuration management tool.

Sten Turpin will provide the demo of Ansible, an agent-less deployment and configuration tool. His talk will show us how to use Ansible Playbooks to both deploy and configure services, and we'll have time to discuss various use cases and ask questions, too. At the close of Sten's talk we should have a reasonable idea of what Ansible does and how to make it work well for us.

What good is this knowledge without experience in using it, though? To make the most of our newly-found knowledge We'll follow-up Sten's talk with some hands-on Ansible hacking. Our focus will be on "ansible-izing" our ChicagoLUG infrastructure, including our website, our GNU Mailman-based mailing list, Prosody XMPP server, Nginx web server, GNU MediaGoblin instance, and more. This will give us good, real-world experience with Ansible, and will also make our infrastruture easier to configure and maintain in the future.

This announcement was originally posted on our website here:
https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2015-07-18.html