Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Michael Scherer wrote:

> Le jeudi 01 novembre 2012 à 08:32 -0400, Mo Morsi a écrit :
>> On 10/31/2012 01:07 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>>> You can orchestrate all of these steps across/between multiple systems
>>> using ansible: http://ansible.cc - I've been documenting spinning up and
>>> provisioning instances on my blog in the last week or so. You might
>>> take a
>>> look - it should solve the problem of the above needing to be so manual
>>> of a process and it requires nothing other than ssh be installed on the
>>> machine you're trying to configure/control.
>>
>>
>> Cool thanks for the info Seth. Ansible looks interesting, its a
>> configuration orchestration component akin to Puppet / Chef is it not?
>> Does it do any provisioning in itself?
>
> It can be used for remote and parallel job executation ( like run uptime
> on all servers ).
>
> But it can also be used with playbook, to describe the state of a server
> and make sure it is compliant. For example, "make sure service is
> started", "restart if config was changed" ( using a notification system
> ).

Most importantly to me is the ability to orchestrate between servers in a 
single playbook or via the api:

Ex: "Take data from running this on system 1 and put that data into the
     config on system 2, notify system 3 you've done this"

-sv