In this edition of the Admin Admin Podcast, we discuss a little bit about FOSDEM and ConfigMgmtCamp, and then our deep-dive on Ansible.

When talking about Ansible, we talk about the alternatives (Puppet, Chef, Salt, Desired State Configuration and reverse DSC, and that you can install software on Windows via Group Policy), and then talk about:

• Provisioning cloud environments with Ansible
• Ansible Modules
• The Inventory file
• Playbooks
• Variables
• Filters
• Jinja2
• Yaml
• Handlers
• Ansible Tower and it’s upstream project – AWX
• Example files by Jon
• Tags
• Example files by Al
• Roles
• Ansible Vault
• Hashing
• Jon’s Github Profile
• Al’s Github Profile
• Jerry’s Github Profile

We plug the following forthcoming events: FossTalk Live – 9th June at King’s Cross, London, Glasgow Podcrawl – 28th July, Glasgow and OggCamp – 18th and 19th August, Sheffield

We mention the following other things: Jerry’s Tech Blog, Bullet Journals, Hackable Podcast, Cool Tools Podcast, Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, and the fiction series Within the Wires.