Transparency, collaboration, inclusivity, and openness lay the foundation of the Open Source community. As the project's maintainers, few of our tasks make the entry bar of contribution low, collaboration easy, and the governance model fair. Ansible Community Engineering Team always thrives on these purposes through our different endeavors.…
'Fosdem ain't like any other conference.' "Ahh, such an overrated statement, I thought to myself." I have been attending and organizing events for years now. "I attended PyCon US with 3500+ attendees and organized a conference with 1000+ people; most importantly, I come…
Ansible Contributor Summit is one of Ansible's most significant and undoubtedly crucial events, now renamed Ansible Colab. It occurs on the last day of Config Management Camp at Ghent. Traditionally, the conference takes place next Monday to Wednesday after Fosdem. We started from Brussels in the afternoon on…
"What, a technology conference has a legal and policy track! This is the conference for me to be in. " That was me in 2017. I dreamed of attending Fosdem but could not attend one (even though my talk was selected). 2024 marked my debutante year in Fosdm. Fosdem…
I released the Ansible 8.3.0 on 15th August, 2023. This is the Ansible stable release. You can read the full Changelog here [https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/CHANGELOG-v8.rst] You can install it via pip. python3 -m pip install ansible==8.3.0 --user You…
After coming from DevConf.cz [https://www.devconf.info/cz/], on 22nd of June I released Ansible Community Package 7.7.0 and 8.1.0. This is the last release of the Ansible 7 series and first minor release of the Ansible 8 series. Ansible Community Package 7.7.…
The PyCon Italy, 2023 [https://pycon.it/en] discussion started in PyCon Sweden 2022, when Valerio [https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriomaggio/] invited me for the keynote. From disbelief (since my talk at PyCon Sweden [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ea00ykQtE&t=32s] was not good) to believing,…
Last Friday 5th of May, the Red Hat Ansible team facilitated an Automation Forum at Arbetsförmedlingen [https://www.linkedin.com/company/arbetsformedlingen/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3Bm1TpLDwjQ2Ort%2Bp2%2F1k6vQ%3D%3D] for Swedish Public sector authorities. We had different public sectors organizations such as Municipalities, Swedish…