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A thought occurs that by making this backwards compatible with Ansible playbooks, by having an AoT compiler that compiles a playbook down to pure Python and the
by grabcocque 9y ago
A thought occurs that by making this backwards compatible with Ansible playbooks, by having an AoT compiler that compiles a playbook down to pure Python and then feeds that into Mitogen, then as a migration path it could look indistinguishable from Ansible from the perspective of a playbook user.
- guhcampos 9y agoI believe this is not meant to replace Ansible, but work like an "engine" that Ansible and other similar tools can run under the hood. This is quite low level code even for an everyday Python developer.
- _wmd 9y agoAnsible internally abstracts all its SSH bits into a 'connection plug-in', the initial goal is implementing another one of those. So with one or two extra lines in ansible.cfg you will get a much faster Ansible, with no other changes necessary. I've no desire to replace Ansible, I'm just sick of wasting hours waiting for it to finish