Re: Ansible recommendations?

[Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>]

Hi,

Le 11/02/2020 à 16:08, Tom Browder a écrit :
> I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining 
> multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop.
>
> I have three questions:
>
> 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you 
> satisfied with the experience?
I can only answer this question: I use Ansible regularly, and I am 
satisfied because it works :-) and the setup is really easy compared to 
what I understood from other tools (did'nt know Rex). Push mode also 
seems the way to go if your laptop needs to be the "master" (I suppose 
that in pull-mode your servers will complain they can't find your laptop 
when it is online). Another interesting thing: learning Ansible is 
useful to manage Linux boxes, but also Windows hosts, switches…
> 2. There are many published books in print about Ansible. Can you 
> recommend one for an experienced sysadmin who is an Ansible newbie?
>
> 3. If you don't recommend Ansible, can you recommend any other similar 
> system?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Tom