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Category: Sysadmin

Using Ansible at ShuttleCloud

[originally published in ShuttleCloud’s blog]

It’s no secret that ShuttleCloud uses Ansible for managing its infrastructure, thus we think it would be useful to explain on how we use it.

Infrastructure

At ShuttleCloud, we take automation as a first order component of Software Engineering. We aim to have everything automated in production: application deployment, monitoring, provisioning, etc. Ansible is a key component in this process.

Our infrastructure is almost entirely in Amazon Web Services (AWS), although we are in the process of moving to Google Compute Engine (GCE). The stack is distributed across several regions in US and Europe. Due to the fact that we have SLAs up to 99.7%, we need to have every component, service and database operating in a High Availability manner.