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They're not competition. I use Terraform for infra provisioning, and Ansible for post-provisioning application setup. I also use Packer + Ansible playbooks to b
by pram 5y ago
They're not competition. I use Terraform for infra provisioning, and Ansible for post-provisioning application setup. I also use Packer + Ansible playbooks to build my AMIs.
- buggeryorkshire 5y agoYup, that's the best use-case. The more that cloudy / container stuff takes over the less I use Ansible tbf.
- jimpudar 5y agoA lot of post provisioning tasks I used to do with Ansible are now handled with cloud-init.
- buggeryorkshire 5y agoExactly. We use it in the pipeline for building the AMI unfortunately at my current place but it's not optimal.
- jimpudar 5y agoI like Packer + Ansible for building machine images. I haven't really tried any alternative workflows but that has been great for my needs so far!
- digianarchist 5y agoYou can create infra with Ansible. The downside to Ansible is the Cloud Provider modules are "community" not core and some of them are buggy.
- polynomial 5y agoWhat kinds of tasks can Ansible do that Packer isn't also capable of?