Ansible - Feature Interest Survey

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This survey intends to gauge levels of interest about some coming things we may wish to do in Ansible or Ansible Tower.

We also wish to do a lot of OTHER things, so don't infer this means we're prioritizing these specific things, we just really had some very specific questions we wanted to poll you on.

Thanks very much for your help and feedback!

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* 1. Do you have any bare-metal machines in your datacenter that you wish to manage? These might be OpenStack host machines, or completely raw non-virtualized machines. These might be machines you manage with something like Cobbler today. Can you share approximately how many bare-metal machines you have? If not applicable, please enter 0. Exclusive cloud users should enter 0. Do not count desktops.

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* 2. If you are interested in managing bare-metal systems, what capabilities should Ansible have in managing them? If you do not have bare-metal systems please skip this question. The thing you would like to see most should be rated a "1".

I would like to have the systems boot to a predefined operating system when machines are plugged in

I want to manage the mapping of DHCP addresses for given MAC addresses

I want to manage the DNS names given to specific MAC addresses or DHCP addresses

I want to have one place to go to reboot a system regardless of it's power management details

I want to have full automation bringing up a baremetal system from scratch

I want to have an easy way to manage OS installation mirrors

I want to have an easy way to manage package mirrors (like yum and apt)

I want to be able to manage install environments across multiple datacenters or labs

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* 3. One of the things we'd like to do is track more "compliance" type scenarios -- though everyone has different needs. In terms of thinking about IT compliance, which of the following features are most important to you? Please rank them so we can tell which is the most important to you? If you don't care about compliance (maybe you're a home user or a test lab?), please feel free to skip this question. Your top choice should be a "1".

I want to know if a system is like or unlike another system, and how

I want to know how a given system has changed over time

I want to know in a given ansible job run what packages, services, and files are specifically modified

I want to know which of my systems are out of compliance with a formal security standard

I want to know which systems in a group are unlike the others

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* 4. State of the Docker question. Lots of Ansible/Docker overlap, we're just wanting to touch base on what you're doing if you are using both Ansible/Docker. It's fine if you aren't :)

I'm not using Docker and have no plans on using Docker

I'm not using Docker but I'm planning on evaluating Docker

I'm using Docker on Amazon, and I am considering ECS (Amazon's container service) to manage my containers

I'm using Docker on Amazon or another cloud, and am using or plan to use another cloud management service like Fleet or Mesos or Kubernetes

I'm using Docker on Amazon or another cloud, mostly driven with Ansible

I'm using Docker on my physical infrastructure, with some Docker management software

I'm using Docker on my physical infrastructure, mostly using Ansible

Other

Other (please specify)

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* 5. If a genie appeared inside your laptop, and you could have any feature added to Ansible or Ansible Tower, what would it be?

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* 6. If you'd like us to perhaps contact you if we'd like to hear more about your infrastructure, or if you'd like to share more about how you are using Ansible, feel free to tell us more and supply your contact info in this box.