We're following exactly the same track record as before, and this was important in finding the right people to work with in the VC community.
We have already announced AWX, which is commercial software, and you can read about it at http://www.ansibleworks.com/ansibleworks-awx/ -- it's downloadable now and you can use it for up to 10 nodes free.
Basically the cutoff is ansible and ansible-playbook should be completely usable for all kinds of teams, but if you find the GUI useful, or want the REST API, or role based access control -- typically things enterprise companies do want, you have a product you can buy that adds a lot of value add on top.
We're going to continue merging in all kinds of great pull requests and features, and continue to expand the language where we need to, and modules.
One example of this is we recently were able to hire James Cammarata, who has been maintaining Cobbler, to work full time on just the OSS bits!
Another example of this is all of our support guys are also helping out on things like IRC, and helping with producing new example content and modules. All the recent modules for OpenStack are an example of one of these things.
Nothing is going to change in terms of licensing or the community at all, if anything, it allows us to have a lot more resources, help promote Ansible more, and move faster.
But yes, we're going to have a really awesome product as well, and I think lots of Ansible users are going to be quite interested in taking a look at it.
I love Ansible but I have a little bit of a complaint with the new website. The website used to be very focused on the product and how to get going fast. Now it seems more enterprisey with all of the major links on the frontpage linking to the solutions page which have way too much content for someone who isn't attached to the product yet. It seems almost more geared towards the business folks rather than the devops people like before. What I like about Ansible is that it gets you up running fast. Now, I have to spend a lot more time digging through the website to figure out what Ansible actually is. Even under Products, Ansible isn't there there. Instead, it lists Ansible AWX which makes very little sense w/o knowing Ansible first.
The documentation is still great and gets you going fast. I think the focus on the website with the Technology vs Solutions vs Products categories is uninviting to your core audience. Perhaps the reason for all of this is because Ansible != AnsibleWorks which makes sense. If that's the case though, I would recommend splitting up the two websites like 10gen did with Mongo ( http://www.10gen.com/ vs http://www.mongodb.org/ ). If you look at Mongo's site, it's very much straight to the point. However, 10gen's site is more focused on the business side of things.
Anyways, you guys are doing a great job with the actual project. See you around.
Seems as a sincere and clear explanation to me. Which is a big plus.
I'll look forward to the progress of ansibleWorks and I think the free until 10 servers model, is great to let the product be tested and even used in little projects.
We have already announced AWX, which is commercial software, and you can read about it at http://www.ansibleworks.com/ansibleworks-awx/ -- it's downloadable now and you can use it for up to 10 nodes free.
Basically the cutoff is ansible and ansible-playbook should be completely usable for all kinds of teams, but if you find the GUI useful, or want the REST API, or role based access control -- typically things enterprise companies do want, you have a product you can buy that adds a lot of value add on top.
We're going to continue merging in all kinds of great pull requests and features, and continue to expand the language where we need to, and modules.
One example of this is we recently were able to hire James Cammarata, who has been maintaining Cobbler, to work full time on just the OSS bits!
Another example of this is all of our support guys are also helping out on things like IRC, and helping with producing new example content and modules. All the recent modules for OpenStack are an example of one of these things.
Nothing is going to change in terms of licensing or the community at all, if anything, it allows us to have a lot more resources, help promote Ansible more, and move faster.
But yes, we're going to have a really awesome product as well, and I think lots of Ansible users are going to be quite interested in taking a look at it.