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Yea, I used some bash scripts to manage ~250 rack mounted servers running Linux with a bunch of custom kernel shit. I don’t even remember everything it did but
by ok_dad 3y ago
Yea, I used some bash scripts to manage ~250 rack mounted servers running Linux with a bunch of custom kernel shit. I don’t even remember everything it did but they specifically couldn’t use virtualization with this system due to latency and only the software included with the OS distribution was allowed so no Ansible or anything.
- drdaeman 3y ago> only the software included with the OS distribution was allowed so no Ansible or anything IIRC, Ansible, unlike Puppet or Salt, didn't require anything particular provisioned on the server - just old good SSH.
- ok_dad 3y agoYea, we were only allowed the tools on the ISO of one specific distribution even for the workstations! It was a secure closed network for testing stuff. My scripts were probably just a worse ansible. Occasionally I would threaten the servers aloud that I would “beat them with a stick” if they misbehaved, because I had a special USB stick which I would use to boot a mini distro that would format the server and pull the approved install image down and setup the network and stuff. It was easier to do that when something hung than diagnose it.