Walter Bentley - Openstack Administration with Ansible 2

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First published: January 2016

Second edition: December 2016

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Walter Bentley is a Rackspace Private Cloud Technical Marketing Engineer and author with a diverse background in production systems administration and solutions architecture. He has more than 15 years of experience in sectors such as online marketing, financial, insurance, aviation, the food industry, education, and now in technology. In the past, he was typically the requestor, consumer, and advisor to companies in the use of technologies such as OpenStack. Today, hes an OpenStack promoter and cloud educator. In his current role, Walter helps customers build, design, and deploy private clouds built on OpenStack. That includes professional services engagements around operating OpenStack clouds and DevOps engagements creating playbooks/roles with Ansible. He presents and speaks regularly at OpenStack Summits, AnsibleFest, and other technology conferences, plus webinars, blog posts and technical reviews. His first book, OpenStack Administration with Ansible, was released in 2016.

I would like to thank my wife and best friend Tasha for allowing me to take on this life changing opportunity for the second time around. Without her understanding and support I do not think it could have all happened. She is truly my lifes motivation. Also, wish to thank my wonderful daughters, London and Rio, for bringing so much joy to our lives. Thank you to my mother and father for cultivating the technical spirit within me from a very early age (that Commodore 64 was definitely my springboardLOL).

I would also like to thank my coworker and fellow architect Kevin Jackson for providing me with the courage to take on this project. I also wish to give deep thanks and gratitude to all of my mentors over the years I have had the privilege to work for and with. Those individuals include David Bartlett, Tyrone Paige, Steve Contrabasso, and Mike Childress. Their multitude of great advice has allowed me to be where I am today.

Travis Truman has 20+ years of experience in the technology industry. His previous roles include software engineering, software product architecture, SaaS platform architecture, and VP of Engineering in several Philadelphia-area startups. Travis is a regular contributor to open source software and has contributed code to OpenStack, Ansible, GopherCloud, Terraform, Packer, Consul, and many other projects powering modern cloud computing. Travis currently works as a Cloud Architect focused on OpenStack, AWS, and Azure for a Fortune 50 media and technology company based in Philadelphia.

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As OpenStack has begun to be considered more of a mainstream cloud platform, the challenge of operating it after it is built has become prevalent. While all cloud tasks can be executed via the API or CLI tool on a one-by-one basis, this would not be the best way to handle larger cloud deployments. The need for more of an automated approach to administering OpenStack is now clear. Most organizations are seeking methods to improve business agility and have realized just having a cloud is not enough. Being able to improve application deployments, reduce infrastructure downtime, and eliminate daily manual tasks can only be accomplished through some sort of automation. OpenStack and Ansible will help any organization close that gap. With the many Infrastructure-as-a-Service capabilities OpenStack has to offer coupled with Ansible, an ease of use configuration management tool, assures a more complete cloud implementation.