Automating in Pre-Container Times with Michael DeHaan

Published: May 5, 2022, 10 a.m.

b'Once upon a time Docker came out and changed the industry forever, but in the before times we had to manage computer systems ourselves! Now things have changed, and one of the biggest voices in that change is Michael DeHaan, creator of Cobbler and Ansible. The current and coming generation of work in tech is to stand on the backs of many giants, of which Michael is one.\\n\\nMichael reflects on the bad old days when server was king, and how Cobbler revolutionized how the provisioning of bare metal systems worked. As Michael tells it, it was basically a way to \\u201cglue\\u201d everything together. But, of course, it is more complicated than that. Michael didn\\u2019t stop there, soon afterward he created Ansible. Ansible was a way to help alleviate some of the stickiness of config management, and deal with scale. If you want to learn more about them both, tune in for that and Michael\\u2019s many other offerings!\\nMichael reflects on the bad old pre-cloud days when server was king, and how Cobbler revolutionized how the provisioning of bare metal systems worked. As Michael tells it, it was basically a way to \\u201cglue\\u201d everything together. But, of course, it is more complicated than that. Michael didn\\u2019t stop there, soon afterward he created Ansible. Ansible was a way to help alleviate some of the stickiness of config management, and deal with scale. If you want to learn more about them both, tune in for that and Michael\\u2019s many other offerings!'