diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 03cea39..27bb59e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # Boardwalk -Boardwalk is a linear [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) workflow engine. It's +Boardwalk is an open-source linear [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) workflow engine. It's purpose-built to help systems engineers automate low-and-slow background jobs against large numbers of production hosts. It's ideal for rolling-maintenance jobs like kernel and operating system upgrades. @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ perform tasks on hosts using Ansible. It connects to hosts one-at-a-time running jobs in a defined order and maintaining a local state as it goes; this makes stopping and resuming long-running Ansible workflows easy and efficient. +[Read the Boardwalk announcement at the Backblaze blog](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-open-sources-boardwalk-workflow-engine-for-ansible/). + 💥 __Boardwalk is alpha software. Interfaces and behaviors may change between updates.__ 💥 @@ -50,6 +52,10 @@ interface used by [AWX](https://github.com/ansible/awx). own secret management system, because Ansible already has solutions to those areas. +## Open-Source License + +Boardwalk is open source, licensed under the terms of the [MIT license](LICENSE). + ## Contributing See [here](./CONTRIBUTING.md).