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I'm excited to announce I'll be presenting the session Make your Ansible Playbooks Flexible, Maintainable, and Stable at AnsibleFest Austin in the first week of October.

I've spent a lot of time building, maintaining, and in a few cases, completely restructuring Ansible playbooks over the past five years. I hope to distill a lot of the lessons I've learned into this presentation, and I hope anyone else who is as passionate about infrastructure automation as I am can get a lot out of it.

As usual, I'll post slides—and hopefully video as well—from the presentation after it's over. Hope to see you in Austin!

I'm still recovering from an intense week of Drupal here in Austin, TX. I kicked things off by walking around the downtown area, then taking the intensive Acquia Drupal Developer Certification exam. Once the conference started, I attended a few sessions, met a few awesome Drupalists, and learned a lot. On the last day of the 'Con (the last session, in fact), I presented DevOps for Humans: Ansible for Drupal Deployment Victory!.

I think the presentation went well, and I heard some great questions at the end which really contributed to the discussion of Ansible and Drupal deployments in general. It was a great way to finish up the official DrupalCon sessions, though it meant I was revising slides for the hundredth time during the rest of the week, instead of relaxing and enjoying DrupalCon!

Before I post a video and slides from the session, I wanted to highlight some resources for anyone who attended (or didn't attend) DrupalCon Austin:

• Extended sprints are still going on—join up and help make Drupal better!
• All the session videos are available on the Drupal Association's YouTube Channel. The videos are also embedded in each session's page on the Austin 2014 website. Here's a list of all the sessions.
• Check out future DrupalCon info: DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014, DrupalCon Latin America 2015, and DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015.
• If you attended the Palantir-sponsored Trivia Night, here are all the teams' final scores (my table got 9th, with 3 DrupalCon first-timers!).

Below is the video and slides from the DevOps for Humans presentation. Please let me know what you think!