A quick ansible proof of concept.

To get this all working:

on your local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/gregfelice/ansible-playbooks.git

$ yum install ansible

$ touch /etc/ansible/hosts

Configure hosts file as per documentation

$ ./run

Ansible documentation is here: http://docs.ansible.com/

Other Notes

Some Future Directions

Provision from vSphere

• Ansible vSphere guest module

Automate SSL certificates

• How do I securely deploy SSL keys with Ansible?

Automate DNS configs

• For internal DNS, TBD
• For UltraDNS, a reasonable python REST library

Tomcat cluster (2 nodes)

• How do I iterate over a list of hosts in a group?
• How do I manage machines with group_vars?

Automate F5 load balancer configs

• A list of Ansible network modules

Invoke playbooks via web services

• TBD

Flows

• Provision brand new machine from scratch