Session
Ansible Without the Anxiety: Automation That Actually Works for Developers
Saturday 25 July
14:00 – 15:00
Educator 2
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Automation tools have a reputation for steep learning curves and fragile configurations. While many Ansible examples, including my own, can be overwhelming, Ansible is only as complicated as you make it.
Ansible's core design philosophy maps well to how developers already think. YAML is declarative, like writing a spec rather than a script. There's no agent to install, no daemon to babysit.
This session will cover the following topics:
- You don't have to write it from scratch. Let's explore Ansible Galaxy, a huge library of community roles and collections that solve common problems out of the box
- AI-Assisted authoring with Ansible Lightspeed, purpose built for generating syntactically correct, context-aware YAML
- Practical patterns for developer workflows, including Ansible tools, and how it works together with existing tools like your favourite CI/CD pipeline to handle the surrounding infrastructure
- Starting small and growing - a practical example of how to start small with one painful manual task, and expanding on that over time
Ansible's core design philosophy maps well to how developers already think. YAML is declarative, like writing a spec rather than a script. There's no agent to install, no daemon to babysit.
This session will cover the following topics:
- You don't have to write it from scratch. Let's explore Ansible Galaxy, a huge library of community roles and collections that solve common problems out of the box
- AI-Assisted authoring with Ansible Lightspeed, purpose built for generating syntactically correct, context-aware YAML
- Practical patterns for developer workflows, including Ansible tools, and how it works together with existing tools like your favourite CI/CD pipeline to handle the surrounding infrastructure
- Starting small and growing - a practical example of how to start small with one painful manual task, and expanding on that over time
