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> Or something more like Ansible? If you make it more like Ansible, you will end up with ... Ansible. If you want to use Ansible you are perfectly welcome to,
by ris 4y ago
> Or something more like Ansible?
If you make it more like Ansible, you will end up with ... Ansible.
If you want to use Ansible you are perfectly welcome to, but as a Nix person the entire Ansible way looks like a completely wrongheaded approach to system management.
- sshine 4y agoIf manual Linux server maintenance is like working with clay, Ansible is like a clay gun. It works great when you have to initiate work on a server you have limited control over; e.g. one that is provisioned from a cloud provider. And where I don’t need more than a few commands, and never need to replay them. Ansible is “bottom-up” (you start in the middle of a server’s lifetime without knowing everything); many more cloudy solutions like Kubernetes assume that a bunch of infrastructure is already set up; container registries, build servers, and the control plane. My first Ansible use-case was to install K3s on a dedicated machine where I could only choose the OS image from a few options like Debian and CentOS.