Ansible-Pull for client configuration management - Balz Aschwanden; Michael Husar; Jan Welker

A presentation from the 2018 CentOS Dojo at CERN

As client services provider at a university, we face a heterogeneous but rather windows- heavy environment. It comes with the unique challenge to provide local support staff with tools to handle diverse Unix (macOS and Linux) client requirements.

We would like to present our approach to systems administration: How we use Ansible in pull mode for client configuration
management and how we integrate it into our current Active Directory and Git infrastructure. The benefits: Infrastructure as code without additional backend components, Active Directory as a graphical frontend for our support staff and the freedom to modify and optimize our tool chain.

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Talk begins at 12:15. Everything before that is an introduction of one kind or another.