On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Steven Ringo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Has anyone had experience in convincing management to use Ansible over > incumbents like Chef and Puppet, especially in so-called "enterprise" > environments. > Thousands upon thousands of people. Take a look for ansible.com/ for some logos of good examples from a few. > > While I think its easy to get buy-in on the developer side, it seems to be > a lot harder when it comes to non-technical management. > > > Anecdotally it seems that Ansible has attracted early adopters in startup > and dev shop environments, but less so in larger "enterprisey" > organisations. That said, I am in Australia which is a much smaller market > than say the US or Europe. > 100% *NOT* the case. We talk to large Enterprises all the time. Again, take a look at ansible.com/ for a few examples, and email us at [email protected] if you ened more info. > > Would love to hear others' experiences in this regard, for example: > > - Support. Vendor and 3rd party. Are any companies out there > specialising in offering Ansible support besides Ansible Inc? > > Not sure why you wouldn't want to go with us, but you're asking on the OSS project list, so this is the wrong venue for it. > - > - Availability of resources (books, training materials, etc). There > are a handful of (mainly self-published) books that cover the basics, and > of course the documentation is excellent. A search on Amazon though only > yields one dedicated Ansible book by Packt. > > There are a few including the Ansible for DevOps book from Geerling, with some more in the works. That being said, we prefer to see open source documentation than dead tree. > > - > - Maturity model, best practices, versioning, script testing, > dependency management, documentation of playbooks etc. > > See docs, galaxy.ansible.com, and the best practices page on ansible.com, etc. > > - > - Reference and larger implementations and case studies, esp in > enterprise environments. > > See ansible.com, or email [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgyNjRAVyYuVOmjtSHxki2BBf%3DtqYbXN7%2BWh-pLQwVX_BQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
