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Ansible is sort of bad at everything, and does a few things decently. I use it as an orchestrator / clusterssh replacement, but for configuration management it
by chousuke 5y ago
Ansible is sort of bad at everything, and does a few things decently.
I use it as an orchestrator / clusterssh replacement, but for configuration management it makes me nervous because I can't trust it to just not break for stupid reasons.
- takeda 5y agoLast time I used it on Amazon Linux 2 with packer. It worked, but 1/3 of the time it failed with some strange error about yum database corruption. I suspect what was happening is that Amazon Linux on start run yum to apply all available updates, and ansible was not respect yum locks, which is very surprising given that Ansible came from Red Hat so they should have known how important locking is for yum. I ended up using salt (which has its own set of issues) and never looked back.