Ansible

Ansible is a radically simple configuration-management, deployment, task-execution, and multinode orchestration framework.

Read all about at it at (http://ansible.github.com)

Design Principles

• Dead simple setup
• Super fast & parallel by default
• No server or client daemons; use existing SSHd
• No additional software required on client boxes
• Modules can be written in ANY language
• Awesome API for creating very powerful distributed scripts
• Be usable as non-root
• The easiest config management system to use, ever.

Get Involved

• ansible-project mailing list
• irc.freenode.net: #ansible

Branch Info

• The master branch corresponds to release 0.3 "Baluchitherium".
• Bug fixes WILL be periodically made to the master branch.
• The devel branch corresponds to release 0.4 "Unchained".
• Note: sudo support works much better in 0.4/devel, consider trying it.
• See CHANGELOG.md for release notes to track each release.

Patch Instructions

Contributions to the core and modules are greatly welcome.

• Required Process:
  • Submit github pull requests to the "ansible/devel" branch for features
  • Fixes for bugs may be submitted to "ansible/master"
  • Make sure "make tests" passes before submitting any requests.
• Bonus points:
  • Joining the mailing list
  • Using squash merges
  • Updating the "rst/*" files in the docs project and "docs/" manpage content
  • Adding more unit tests
• Avoid:
  • Sending patches to the mailing list directly.
  • Sending feature pull requests to the 'master' branch instead of the devel branch
  • Sending pull requests to mpdehaan's personal ansible fork.

Author

Michael DeHaan -- michael.dehaan@gmail.com

http://michaeldehaan.net