• Speaker: Robby Callicotte
• Room: CC 234
• Time: Sat 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

• Format: Lecture (30 Min + Q&A)
• Difficulty: Some experience required
• Track: DevOps
• Presenter Location: In-person
• Experience: first time speaking
• At: at lfnw

You’ve written some Ansible playbooks — but how do you *really* know they work before pushing them to production? This session explores how to safely and repeatably test your Ansible automation using Test Kitchen with lightweight virtualization tools such as Docker, Podman, Vagrant, or QEMU.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Build reproducible local test environments for Ansible
• Validate roles and tasks automatically before deployment
• Write simple verification checks
• Integrate tests into a CI pipeline
• Catch errors early and increase confidence in automation

Whether you're new to Ansible or managing complex infrastructure, this talk shows how to “cook” reliable playbooks without burning down your servers.

Target Audience:

• Anyone interested in automating their desktop or infrastructure