Using Ansible Robin Long June 15, 2017 Can you build a - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Using Ansible Robin Long June 15, 2017

Can you build a presentation in Ansible? • Well this would be proof • Its is not the pretiest, but it is functional • Assuming you use LaTeX • Who doesn’t? • Shame on you. Robin Long ( Lancaster University ) Ansible June 15, 2017 1 / 1

Introduction • Ansible is light and simple. • Easy to run. • Very customisable. • Easy to setup. • Very powerful. Robin Long ( Lancaster University ) Ansible June 15, 2017 2 / 1

How can ansible help? • It will allow Grid and HEP to “Change Britains Future” • Creating a “Strong and Stable” computing service • so that we can have a Grid “For the Many, not the few”. • allows us to work “For the common good” Robin Long ( Lancaster University ) Ansible June 15, 2017 3 / 1

What are we doing with it? • BDII, SQUID, and CVMFS done in • ARGUS nearly done. • CE is next in line. • Trying to make these as generic as possible. • controlled by variables Robin Long ( Lancaster University ) Ansible June 15, 2017 4 / 1

Who else is using it? • Edinburgh • Glasgow • brunel Robin Long ( Lancaster University ) Ansible June 15, 2017 5 / 1

What do I want? • More people to start using it!! • Find out who is using ansible. • Pool efforts. • Central repo. Robin Long ( Lancaster University ) Ansible June 15, 2017 6 / 1