Ansible and Juju sitting in a tree -  Charles Butler
Channel: TheSmartbit
Date: 2016-02-09

Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J_nZVQxfB7u4mmZFLiC0sxH8A6O9_ei2xVONm8xlt8g/edit#slide=id.gfc7861c1f_0_0

Combine all the things! One of our newly formed web teams was at akward place. The "ok what tool should we use?" discussion came up. Some people liked config management tool A, some wanted B, and some wanted C. They were short on time so learning deep in any of these tools was an automatic no-op. Out of frustration they decided to try Ansible, but only invest a few hours into it so they don't go too far down the rabbit hole in case they changed their minds. And in those few hours they were able to immediately prototype a working model that made the choice obvious. When combined with Juju we soon found a pattern of success that spread quickly and soon found it's way into production. In this talk we'll cover our production Elasticsearch stack playbooks and charms and things we've learned from integrating all these tools together.

About Charles Butler
Charles currently works on the Juju data center orchestration platform as a charmer. His prior work includes building the #5 Pittsburgh PA Digital Marketing Agency: Level Interactive, and performing community Q/A with many Open Source projects.