Ansible and infrastructure as code

A talk about how Ansible and Infrastructure as code

Transcript

1. and infrastructure as code
2. Motivation
3. • Test environment hell • Inconsistent server farms • «What are we releasing on?» • Platform requirements • We need new machines quickly • Developers waste time!
5. Snowflake vs. Phoenix Server
6. Infrastructure as code
7. • Reproducible environments • Servers in source control • Imutable infrastructure • Safety!
8. Baked vs. Fried servers
9. The usual suspects
12. Why Ansible?
13. Cross platform
14. Open Source
15. Agentless
16. Most important:
17. The correct abstraction (for us)
18. Playbooks push Database Appserver Build agent
20. Ansible keeps state
23. Let’s dive into it