Outreach: Workshops

Workshops and demos

Tips

When organizing an Ansible workshop or giving a demo, there are a couple of things to consider:

• Be prepared!
• Do you need an internet connection?
• Do you really need an internet connection?
• Can you do without an internet connection?
• What is the level of the audience?
• Keep the audience interested, you lose them all too quickly.
• Communicate what is needed to attend the workshop (laptop, etc.)

As you can see I'm rather hammering on the presence or absence of an internet connection. Always be prepared for a not working or not performing internet connection. I have seen the most crappy connections with a throughput nearing 0.0bps being advertised as 'Broadband Internet Connection'. Do not depend on the connection being up and running.

Starting points

Ansible provides a good starting project for basic Ansible workshops called Project Lightbulb:

• https://github.com/ansible/lightbulb

For those planning to give the workshop and are developing their own, some starting points:

• https://github.com/ansible-provisioning/workshop-provisioning
• https://github.com/bbaassssiiee/vagransible

When you are planning to give a live demo, during a presentation, make sure that you are self-supporting.

Some of the demos given in real time live:

• https://github.com/danvaida/Ansible-Berlin-Meetup

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