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Re: Thoughts on Ansible?



On 08/19/2017 02:43 AM, deloptes wrote:
RavenLX wrote:

Should Ansible be added to my list? Or do devs recommend something else?

(I am wondering if the "user" mailing list is even the right place to
ask?)

It was indeed a long reading. I couldn't understand why you exactly use
config automation.

In my opinion it is best suited where you must manage multiple devices of
same type and keep them at same state.
I wrote recently few ansible playbooks. If you are experienced you may not
need that much testing, but ... still it takes time to write and improve a
playbook.

Knowing ansible does not have anything to do with python. Actually you need
more yaml knowledge. There are ready modules that you can use.

regards

A friend suggested Ansible, but I think I agree with you that for what I do, Ansible would be overkill. I have two laptops that I keep pretty identical and so far have done well doing so with only a bash script I wrote. As for servers I only maintain 1 web server and an identical test server that is a virtual machine on my own computer. So I don't have a lot of machines. (Well, to me they are not a lot).

Yaml is new to me. I'll have to look into it. I know a little about JSON and XML but that's it.



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