Ansible

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

Read the documentation 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

• Releases are named after Van Halen songs.
• The devel branch corresponds to release 0.7, "Panama".
• Various release-X.Y branches exist for previous releases
• All feature work happens on the development branch.
• Major bug fixes will be made to the last release branch only
• 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 also be submitted to "ansible/release-X.Y" for the last release
  • Make sure "make tests" passes before submitting any requests.
• Bonus points:
  • Joining the mailing list
  • Fixing bugs instead of sending bug reports.
  • 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 'release' 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