Re: Thoughts on Anible?
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 07:01:03PM -0400, RavenLX wrote:
> Please forgive my goofy questions. I am not really that well versed in CM
> (Configuration Management) and this post is really going to show it.
>
> Because this will more than likely be tltr (too long to read), I'll try to
> make it as fun as possible. Forgive if my humor is a bit strange.
>
> I noticed "Anible" isn't in the debian repos. Seems to be a Red Hat
> scripting engine for creating automated installs.
Just a fact correction.
I think you are mistyping. Ansible is in the repo of Debian:
$ apt show ansible
Package: ansible
Version: 2.2.1.0-2
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Harlan Lieberman-Berg <hlieberman@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 12.8 MB
Depends: python-crypto (>= 2.6), python-jinja2, python-paramiko, python-pkg-resources, python-yaml, python:any (<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~), python-httplib2, python-netaddr
Recommends: python-kerberos, python-selinux, python-winrm (>= 0.1.1), python-xmltodict
Suggests: cowsay, sshpass
Homepage: https://www.ansible.com
Tag: admin::automation, admin::configuring, admin::file-distribution,
admin::package-management, implemented-in::python,
interface::commandline, role::program, use::configuring,
works-with::software:running
Download-Size: 1,675 kB
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
Description: Configuration management, deployment, and task execution system
Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management,
multi-node deployment, and remote task execution system. Ansible works
over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed
on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and
are transferred to managed machines automatically.
...
> I heard about "Ansible" and how it is supposed to make it easier to write
> installation scripts.
Correct spelling ;-)
I think use of ansible or any similar tool is not prerequisite of
"development". It's a configuration management system. It's a nice and
interesting tool I am thinking to learn but I don't use it yet.
You need C, Shell, Perl, Python, git, ... skills first for development.
Osamu
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