Ansible 2014 Community Survey Questions Question Title * 1. How long have you been using Ansible? A month or less 1-2 months 2-6 months 6-12 months over a year Question Title * 2. What operating system do you most frequently use as the Ansible control machine (the machine you run ansible-playbook from) Red Hat Fedora CentOS Ubuntu Debian Gentoo Arch OS X FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Other (please specify) Question Title * 3. What operating systems do you currently manage with Ansible? Red Hat Fedora CentOS Ubuntu Debian Gentoo Arch OS X FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Windows Other (please specify) Question Title * 4. When you install or upgrade Ansible, you most frequently get it from pip source ./hacking/env-setup from checkout make install from checkout yum apt rpm (I build the RPMs from the Makefile) dpkg (I build the apt packages from the Makefile) homebrew macports Other (please specify) Question Title * 5. Have you tried Ansible Tower? Yes, I use it regularly Yes, tried it and it wasn't for me Haven't heard of it Haven't tried it yet but plan to No, don't think I need it No, other reason Comments Question Title * 6. Which of the following Ansible features do you use? cloud deployment modules (ec2, rackspace, etc) windows support (new in 1.7 development branch) ansible galaxy (I download roles) ansible galaxy (I publish roles of my own for others to use) ansible vault (encrypt data in playbooks) accelerated mode (transport optimization) SSH pipelining (transport optimization) Jinja2 templates async actions database modules docker modules source control modules (checkout git/svn/hg for deployment, etc) unarchive module (deploy from a tarball) synchronize module (rsync wrapper) automatic parking assistant Question Title * 7. What are some of the tools in your neighborhood? Jenkins Other CI System Amazon AWS Rackspace Cloud Google Compute Engine Microsoft Azure VMware OpenStack SoftLayer Docker Other Public Cloud Other Private Cloud Puppet Chef CFEngine Fabric Capistrano Vagrant cowsay Other (please specify) Question Title * 8. Regarding the number of systems you manage with Ansible I have this many Linux systems in my fleet that Ansible touches I have this many other Unix systems that Ansible touches I have this many Windows systems that Ansible touches I have this many machines that Ansible doesn't touch yet Question Title * 9. Regarding your Ansible workflow How many machines does Ansible touch at once in your largest playbook run? What do you have --forks set to? If you don't understand this question, enter 0. How much memory is the machine you run Ansible from? Specify in units of megabytes (MB). Question Title * 10. A few more numerical questions...feel free to round things How many people work for your company How many people are in your team doing IT automation things How many people on your team use Ansible How many people in your company do you think use Ansible? Question Title * 11. Optional: If you would like to tell us a bit about yourself, and what you or your company does, you can let us know here. Any inclusion of contact info is optional and we will not add you to any mailing lists. Question Title * 12. Optional: What features would you most like to see in Ansible? Question Title * 13. Optional: Any other comments to share? Done