# Clarification on the "elasticluster" announcement

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/clarification-on-the-elasticluster-announcement/13149>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 18, 2013, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/clarification-on-the-elasticluster-announcement/13149 "2013-07-18T08:13:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Antonio\_Messina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Antonio\_Messina](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Antonio_Messina)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/clarification-on-the-elasticluster-announcement/13149/1 "2013-07-18T08:13:53Z")

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Hi all,

I think I have to apologize for my previous email sent to the mailing  
list: it was not supposed to appear as SPAM, so if this is what's  
happened then I wrote the wrong message to the wrong mailing list, I  
will try to elaborate better the next time. 🙂

The reason why we sent the announcement is that elasticluster is using  
ansible \*a lot\*: it's basically a thin python layer on top of ansible  
playbooks that allows you to easily create various kind of clusters of  
machines, and the idea was to have playbooks that can be used also  
independently from elasticluster. In fact, they are stored on a  
separate github repository:  
[https://github.com/gc3-uzh-ch/ansible-playbooks/](https://github.com/gc3-uzh-ch/ansible-playbooks/) ("cloud" branch)

Of course, we do not intend to send an email for each release (that,  
would be spam :)), but since this is the \*first public release\* of  
elasticluster we wanted to let the ansible community know, because we  
think they can benefit from both elasticluster or just the playbooks,  
and because we think the ansible community could be interested in  
contributing as well.

Also, we think ansible is a very nice piece of software and allowed us  
to make a very modular, neat, software (in our opinion), so we wanted  
to share what we were able to do thanks to it.

.a.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/clarification-on-the-elasticluster-announcement/13149/2 "2013-07-18T11:42:34Z")

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No problem, I didn’t actually read the link myself and that’s my fault 🙂

Glad to see a project like this using Ansible!