First, I'm just curious if anyone is using Ansible[1] in production? After getting fed up with puppet, I'm seriously considering moving to Ansible. I've spent a couple hours the last few days poking at it, and it's been a *much* more pleasant experience than I've had with puppet. Second, any post-Minnebar thoughts? The most enjoyable (and useful) session I attended was the monitoring session. Among other projects, this session introduced me to Sensu[2], a new-ish monitoring framework. I've been using Nagios for years, and it holds a dear place in my heart. In my current gig, though, our environment has a very high rate of change. Servers get started and destroyed programmatically, sometimes on a minute-by-minute basis. This makes using legacy monitoring products like Nagios very painful. Sensu uses a subscription-based model where clients register themselves with the server and "subscribe" to different roles. Based on that role's configuration, the server starts checking services on the client. I haven't started playing with Sensu yet, but I will likely be doing so in the next few days, as I don't want to invest any more time in my Nagios setup if I'm going to be deprecating it soon. Anyway, that's all for now - I'm looking forward to hearing from (hopefully) some of you! Thanks! -Erik [1] http://ansible.cc/ [2] http://sensuapp.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130408/e523d32b/attachment.html>