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AnsibleFest 2018: Community project highlights

October 8, 2018

ARA Records Ansible 0.15 has been released

May 3, 2018

Scaling ARA to a million Ansible playbooks a month

April 9, 2018

Awesome things in software engineering: open source

February 24, 2018

Rebranding Ansible Run Analysis to ARA Records Ansible

February 23, 2018
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Limiting the amount of concurrent asynchronous tasks in Ansible

May 10, 2017 David Moreau Simard

3 minute read

Ansible is known to be good at running things in the order you write them and that’s why it’s awesome for orchestration.

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ARA is one year old! A look back at the past year.

May 8, 2017 David Moreau Simard

8 minute read

ARA is one year old, happy birthday ARA !

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ARA: Ansible Run Analysis 0.13 is out and it's awesome !

May 5, 2017 David Moreau Simard

4 minute read

I’m excited to announce the release of ARA: Ansible Run Analysis 0.13.0!

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An even better Ansible reporting interface with ARA 0.12

March 12, 2017 David Moreau Simard

4 minute read

Not even a month ago, I announced the release of ARA 0.11 with a bunch of new features and improvements.

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Announcing the ARA 0.11 release

February 13, 2017 David Moreau Simard

4 minute read

We’re on the road to version 1.0.0 and we’re getting closer: introducing the release of version 0.11!

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Updates to Fedora Account System and impacts to fedpkg, koji

December 12, 2016 David Moreau Simard

2 minute read

Today when trying to do my Fedora packaging stuff I encountered problems with the fedpkg and koji commands – they would just hang without any output.

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ARA 0.10, the biggest release yet, is out !

December 1, 2016 David Moreau Simard

3 minute read

19 commits, 59 changed files, 2,404 additions and 588 deletions… and more than a month’s on and off work.

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Recorded presentations from OpenStack Canada Day

November 29, 2016 David Moreau Simard

2 minute read

OpenStack Days are sort of local mini one-day OpenStack summits.

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Visualizing Kolla's Ansible playbooks with ARA

November 9, 2016 David Moreau Simard

3 minute read

Kolla is an OpenStack deployment tool that’s growing in popularity right now.

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OpenStack operators, developers, users... It's YOUR summit, vote!

August 4, 2016 David Moreau Simard

7 minute read

Once again, the OpenStack Summit is nigh and this time it’ll be in Barcelona.

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Recent Posts

AnsibleFest 2018: Community project highlights

October 8, 2018

ARA Records Ansible 0.15 has been released

May 3, 2018

Scaling ARA to a million Ansible playbooks a month

April 9, 2018

Awesome things in software engineering: open source

February 24, 2018

Rebranding Ansible Run Analysis to ARA Records Ansible

February 23, 2018
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Hi! I'm David or otherwise known online as dmsimard. I'm a Principal Software Engineer and contributor to the upstream Ansible community at Red Hat. I don't blog much anymore but feel free to reach out and chat !

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