Adam Miller

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. In this session, we'll discuss many uses for Ansible, including examples from the traditional to the unorthodox. We'll discuss various topics such as configuration management, provisioning, deployment, orchestration, command line tooling, builds, event-based execution, workflow automation, continuous integration, and Ansible container.

Many current trends in software development and deployment are based around the concept of microservices, small independent services interconnected via application programming interfaces (APIs).

The concept of immutable infrastructure is another area of application life cycle that’s gaining attention. In immutable infrastructure, we deploy immutable components that are replaced each time we deploy instead of in-place upgrades.

In this session, we’ll discuss the use of containers as a delivery mechanism for microservices following the immutable infrastructure paradigm. We’ll show this in the context of Project Atomic, CoreOS, Ansible and OpenShift.