2026-02-03, 16:00–16:50, B.1.0.14
The Ansible community team at Red Hat work to dismantle closed infrastructure and open up workloads and processes to community contributors.
Join me to hear how we moved from locked-down Jenkins jobs to transparent, community-managed GitHub workflows. I'll share how we navigated the technical challenges of migrating a truly chonky Sphinx build process, preserved a decade of SEO authority, and scored some major quality improvements by providing contributor access.
It all started at an Ansible contributor summit at CfgMgmtCamp 2023 too! So please join me as I share what we learned about infrastructure, trust, and some unexpected ways investment in OSS can unlock community potential.
Some key points we'll cover in this session:
- Why closed infrastructure hurts open source projects, even when it seems "necessary"
- Tackling massive sphinx-builds (spoiler alert: I/O and memory constraints)
- Preserving SEO while migrating unmaintainable legacy content and 10k+ http redirects
- Replacing Jenkins jobs with GHA workflows
- How Read The Docs saved the day!
I'm Don.