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When you inherit any code, it's always a mess, at least that's my experience. Sometimes a working mess, but it's rare to inherit nice code in any system. I cou
by geerlingguy 6y ago
When you inherit any code, it's always a mess, at least that's my experience. Sometimes a working mess, but it's rare to inherit nice code in any system.
I could be biased since I've worked mostly with Python, Ruby, PHP, and Java.
- dnautics 6y agoof course, but debugging ansible YAML is exceptionally hard on account of the difficulty of decoding its quasi-declarative, quasi-imperative nature, the difficulty of knowing what the variables to be interpolated are (they could have been changed by other playbooks!), etc. You'll want at the very least a sane set of debug tools to figure things out when they go wrong. The other alternative is to just give up and rewrite the ansible script, which has been what I had to do on several occasions.