OpenShift Commons Briefing Summary
In this session, Red Hat's Todd Sanders, Director, Software Engineering, and John Matthews, Principal Software Engineer, introduce the concept of the Ansible Playbook Bundle and Ansible Service Broker. Additionally, they walk through a few use cases demonstrating how to define and deploy multi-container applications.
The Kubernetes Service Catalog and Open Service Broker API are creating a new way for users to provision and manage services on OpenShift through a collection of Service Brokers. One of these brokers, the Ansible Service Broker, is focused on providing a mechanism for allowing applications defined with Ansible to be exposed to the Service Catalog. We call this application definition an Ansible Playbook Bundle (APB); a lightweight definition that is essentially a few Ansible playbooks named for each of the Open Service Broker API methods. The bundle is packaged as a container image with an Ansible runtime for distribution to be consumed by the Ansible Service Broker.
Access the slides from the presentation here: Deploying Multi-Container Applications with Ansible Service Broker.

Additional Ansible Service Broker Resources:
- Trello: https://trello.com/b/50JhiC5v/ansible-service-broker
- Github:
- https://github.com/fusor/ansible-service-broker
- https://github.com/fusor/ansible-playbook-bundle
- Library of example APBs:
- https://github.com/fusor/apb-examples includes ManageIQ, Etherpad, Wordpress, ELK Stack
- Videos:
- YouTube Channel
- Using the Service Catalog to Bind a PostgreSQL APB to a Python Web App
- Service Catalog deploying ManageIQ APB on to OpenShift
- Docker hub published APBs: https://hub.docker.com/u/ansibleplaybookbundle/
Learn More at the Next OpenShift Commons Gathering in Austin Dec 5th
Red Hatters, CNCF/Kubernetes project leads, and numerous other members of the OpenShift Commons will be gathering together in Austin for the upcoming OpenShift Commons Gathering co-located with Kubecon at the Austin Convention Center. Register now to reserve your seat at this day long event!
More Austin Gathering details here: https://commons.openshift.org/gathering](https://commons.openshift.org
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About OpenShift Commons
OpenShift Commons is the place for organizations that are part of the OpenShift community to connect with peers and other related open source technology communities to communicate and collaborate across all OpenShift projects and stakeholders.
The Commons' goal is to foster collaboration and communication between OpenShift stakeholders to drive success for all members, and expand & facilitate points of connection between members for sharing knowledge and experience to help drive success for the platform and for participants: customers, users, partners, and contributors.
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