Date
Thursday, 26 Mar 2020 6:00 PM
Description
Ansible is a very well known tool that is now owned and maintained by Red Hat that simplifies configuration management. In recent years, its development has been fast-paced and has frequent iterations and new feature releases. Despite the benefits that this brings, it has made it hard for sysadmins and devops teams to keep up with the latest best practices, deprecations, and the newest features.
Starting from the 1.9.4 release, I will walk through select features that have undergone significant changes and deprecations from a sysadmin’s perspective with the intent of providing easy-to-implement upgrade strategies. Additionally, I will outline what is required for a minimal integration testing environment, mentioning the pitfalls and gotchas that I’ve run into on the way, in order to provide a path for ongoing upkeep and maintenance.
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A big thanks to our March sponsor, New Horizons! New Horizons is the world’s largest independent training company and has location right here in Columbus (Dublin). Without companies like New Horizons these events simply could not happen. So please next time you’re thinking about training, think about New Horizons.
Thank you to our 2020 sustaining sponsor, Autodesk. Without their support we would not be able to continue delivering high quality events (nevermind the high quality food and beer!) that we do every month. Thank you Autodesk!
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Agenda
6:00 PM – Introductions, food, drink, and networking
6:30 PM – Presentations begin
Our Speaker
Andrew Cziryak has been a Systems Analyst at OCLC in Columbus, OH for the past two years, focusing on automation and vulnerability management. This consists of the patching of ~10,000 virtual machines, both on premises and in the cloud, on a regular cadence.
Since Ansible has been a technology that has been implemented company-wide, I have been able to jump in and design roles and playbooks for us to accomplish these tasks, having to continually evolve them over the course of my time here. My passion for Ansible extends outside of work as well, where I use it to manage my self-hosted services, hosted both for my own personal use, and for others.
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Location
OCLC Dublin, Ohio
6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin Ohio 43017
Please note: Make sure you go to the conference center, but the OCLC main building
About LOPSA
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