CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent

Comparing Ansible Development Environment Implementations
2025-02-03, 16:50–17:40, Ansible 2 (B.1.014)

Why would you want to develop Ansible in a container or a cloud? How could this help your development workflow or interaction with your team?

This session aims to navigate through the concept of an Ansible Development Environment, exploring what it entails and how to effectively manage and distribute these environments, whether locally, across teams, or within cloud infrastructure.

We will cover:
- Introduction to Ansible Development Environments
- Key Technologies and Tools
- For instance: Dev Containers, DevPod, Eclipse Che or Coder
- Best Practices for Managing and Distributing Development Environments
- Motivation and Use Cases
- Live Demos
- Problem-Solution Mapping: What tool fits certain use cases?

Niklas Werker is Technical Lead Ansible at SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH in Germany.

Having a background in automotive engineering, Niklas shifted his focus to DevOps Engineering. His passion lies in automation, IaC, Linux, Hybrid Clouds, CI/CD and open-source software.