ARA is a powerful development tool that revolutionizes how teams understand, troubleshoot, and debug Ansible content. By providing detailed execution records and intuitive visualizations, ARA transforms complex playbook runs into actionable insights, significantly reducing development time and improving collaboration. This session will demonstrate: • ARA fundamentals - Architecture, core features, and how it captures Ansible execution data • Environment setup - Quick installation and configuration for local and team environments • Team collaboration - Sharing execution reports, comparing runs, and maintaining playbook documentation Target audience: Ansible developers, DevOps engineers, and infrastructure teams looking to enhance their automation workflows. No prior ARA experience required - examples will progress from basic concepts to advanced use cases. Key takeaways: Attendees will leave with practical knowledge to implement ARA in their environments and measurably improve their Ansible development process.

ARA (ARA Records Ansible) is an Ansible development tool that makes it much easier to understand, troubleshoot and debug Ansible content during development process. This tool can also help you to collaborate with your team members on Ansible content development. This talk will cover the following topics: What is ARA and how it works How to set up ARA in your environment. How to use ARA to understand, troubleshoot and debug Ansible content. How to use ARA to collaborate with your team members on Ansible content development. How to integrate ARA into your CI/CD pipeline. How to use ARA to track changes in your Ansible content.

Ansible yaml code is easy to write but hard to understand and reason about, hard to maintain, debug and test. All of this until you take a functional programming perspective look at an Ansible code. Concepts from functional programming like pure functions, effects, composition, lazy evaluations and others are very much applicable and very useful in Ansible.Allow me to show you how concepts from functional programming can help you simplify Ansible content development, make your Ansible content bullet proof tested, easy to maintain, understand and reuse. This talk does not require any prior knowledge of functional programming. It is designed to be useful to both beginners and experienced Ansible content developers.

Discover how the fundamental principles of SOLID—Single Responsibility, Open-Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion—can significantly elevate your Ansible role and playbook development. Join us for a session that delves into the practical application of SOLID principles within the realm of Ansible content creation.

In this lightning talk I will present Ansible Molecule driver that allows quickly provision infrastructure on major cloud providers from YAML file. Created landscape may include disks, shared storage, networks, all in different regions. Additional operations on provisioned landscape are possible - backup, restore, deallocation, allocation. Author will share how he and team used Ansible Molecule to test complex Ansible role in DevOps manner. Expected that participants are interested in quick and easy ways to provision compute infrastructure on major cloud providers and will be using presented tools after.