Ansible:

Automation
made simple
 Simple. Agentless. Powerful.
Automate Faster Efficient & Orchestration +
/Uses YAML for playbooks Secure /App deployment

/Human-readable /Uses OpenSSH /Configuration management

/No special coding skills needed /No extra code to manage /Workflow orchestration

/No single-point-of-knowledge problem /More secure /Provisioning

/Tasks executed in order /More scalable /Team tools with Tower

/Get productive quickly /Ready for cloud-scale /Multiple tools in one

/More efficient
Powerful, flexible and Interoperable:

Application Workflow
Deployments Orchestration

Configuration
Provisioning
Management
Reasons for Ansible
● Wide OS support
For those heterogeneous environments or those that are homogeneous but plan
to change.

● Works with the colo and the cloud

You can maintain either, both or migrate one to the other, your choice.

● Integrates with most clouds

A plethora of cloud modules and they can also be used inventory sources.

● Small footprint
It reuses common existing tools (ssh, sudo, python, etc). No additional
infrastructure, no new firewall rules, no new permissions and no SSL certificates.

● Plays well with others

It can substitute many other products or work with them for better results.

● Easy to expand plugin architecture

Makes custom developments a lot easier to integrate.
Reasons for Ansible
● Lower system maintenance costs
You can quickly and easily do security & performance updates.

● Deploy more reliably, faster, more often

Easy to structure release process, make it reproducible, reliable and distributed.

● Automate recovery and failover

Faster time to recovery, less downtime, less risk.

● Mitigate the pain of migration

Make it easier to take advantage of new technologies, easily integrate the into
the cloud.

● Gentle learning curve and easy adaptation

Easy to adapt, non intrusive, plays well with existing infrastructure.

● Intelligible
Makes it easy to learn, audit and verify.
Openstack support
Many modules:
glance_image - Add/Delete images from glance
keystone_user - Manage OpenStack Identity (keystone) users, tenants and roles
nova_compute - Create/Delete VMs from OpenStack
nova_keypair - Add/Delete key pair from nova
quantum_floating_ip - Add/Remove floating IP from an instance
quantum_floating_ip_associate - Manage a particular floating IP with an
instance
quantum_network - Creates/Removes networks from OpenStack
quantum_router - Create or Remove router from openstack
quantum_router_gateway - Manages gateway interfaces for a defined router
quantum_router_interface - Attach/Dettach a subnet’s interface to a router
quantum_subnet - Add/remove subnet from a network

Major players engaged:

Major backers and users of Openstack also support and/or use ansible:

Rackspace, HP Helion, Bluebox and we even get help from Monty Taylor.
Openstack simple examples
---
-hosts: localhost
connection: local
vars_files:
- ostack_bcs.yml
tasks:

- name: create tenants

keystone_user:
token: "{{ security_token }}"
tenant: "{{ item }}"
tenant_description: "Tenant"
with_items: [ ‘tenant1’, ‘tenant2’, ‘tenant3’]

- name: add image to glance

glance_image:
copy_from: "http://download.myimages.com/1/custom.img"
name: myfirstimage
disk_format: qcow2
is_public: true
container_format: bare
login_username: admin
login_tenant_name: tenant1
login_password: "{{ admin_password}}"
region_name: RegionOne
auth_url: "http://{{ controller }}:{{ controller_port}}/v2.0"
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 Ansible Tower
The best way to run Ansible in your organization.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
ACCESS CONTROL
Graphically manage your internal
Role-based access
& cloud resources
control & LDAP
integration
DELEGATION OF PUSH-BUTTON LAUNCH
CREDENTIALS Launch automation jobs with a
AUDITING button
Delegate credentials without
See a full Ansible job
giving away secrets
history with drill-in details API & CLI
Documented RESTful API
and Tower CLI to
integrate Tower into your
tools

SCHEDULING
Schedule
automation jobs
(great for
periodic
remediation)
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