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.

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.