2021 Ansible Illinois Meetup

Ansible Illinois Meetup meets online currently. All attendees interested in topics around Enterprise (or hobby!) Automation and Infrastructure as Code are welcome!

Future dates are subject to change, particularly around holidays, but effort is made to keep them consistent and to announce changes on LinkedIn in advance.

Meetings are on the third Thursday of each month, from 2 - 4 pm Central US time.

January 29, 2021

Topic: Informal Chat

February 26, 2021

Topic: Write files with Ansible's template and copy modules.

Speaker: Joanna Delaporte

March 26, 2021

Topic: Use the Ansible Lab Provisioner to create a demo Ansible Automation Platform environment with target hosts.

Speaker: Joanna Delaporte

April 30, 2021

Topic: Ansible Introduction with focus on templates.

Speaker: Joanna Delaporte

May 20, 2021

Topic: Informal Chat

Thursday, June 17, 2021 2 pm CDT

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Topic: Ansible Workshop Intro Series

• Access the Lab
• Write your first playbook
• Run ad-hoc commands

Thursday, July 15, 2021 2 pm CDT

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Topic: Ansible Workshop Intro Series

• Using Variables
• Templates (and Files)
• Conditionals, Handlers, and Loops

Thursday, August 19, 2021 2 pm CDT

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Topic: Ansible Workshop Intro Series

• Using/Writing Ansible Roles
• Using Ansible Collections

Thursday, September 16, 2021 2 pm CDT

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Topic: Ansible Workshop Intro Series

• Ansible Automation Platform GUI
• Projects and Job Templates
• Inventories, Credentials, and Ad Hoc Commands

Thursday, October 21, 2021 2 pm CDT

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Topic: Ansible Workshop Intro Series

• Ansible Surveys
• Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Automation Workflows

Thursday, November 18, 2 pm CST

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Topic: Ansible Workshop Intro Series

• Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 Demo and playground
• Automation Analytics

Thursday, December 16, 2 pm CST

• Holiday hangout