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I never really saw Ansible as a heavy tool. But a place I worked at in the past used cfengine, so my barometer for this is probably a bit different.
by bcrosby95 7y ago
I never really saw Ansible as a heavy tool. But a place I worked at in the past used cfengine, so my barometer for this is probably a bit different.
- mindslight 7y agoYou had a point about error checking that I think is pertinent to my not being in Ansible's niche. If a service fails to start on a single host, it's because I'm already tinkering with that configuration and hence will notice the failure. Whereas with tens of highly similar hosts, you want to find out about exceptions sooner. I'm actually getting to this point with some common things (apt upgrade), hence looking into Ansible again recently. Overall my goal is to write very few on-host configuration scripts, and prefer overwriting files. For example, most triggers are simply service restarts, which can also be performed by a full reboot.