mpdehaan2

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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   I like data driven stuff. Though there's still a DSL. This is a large reason why I made http://ansible.cc , as I wanted the actual description of the policy to be data as well.
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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   I would recommend starting with MooseX::Declare instead of Moose if you are trying to upgrade your Perl, as Moose is great above standard Perl OO but doesn't go far enough by itself. Previously I found that MoooseX::Method::Signatures was v
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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   Sure, multi-tier has been a focus from day 1, so a common example is a workflow where you want to hop between tiers of a 3-tier application, touch load balancers and monitoring along the way, and so on... that's all trivially possible prima
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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   This kind of feeling is a large reason why I created http://ansible.cc/ The feeling that I want to write something quick or easy shouldn't depend on the size of my infrastructure, it should be easy either way -- 500 servers, 50, 1, doesn
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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   Ansible is definitely model based (and idempotent, like Puppet or Chef), unlike Fabric. The resource model was reasonably inspired by Puppets, even if other aspects were not. I look at Fabric as a deployment tool, fine if you like it, but c
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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   Thanks for the mention! FWIW, front page is http://ansible.cc and there's a FAQ there that explains a bit more. Docs are http://ansible.cc/docs
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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   This seems to be more like a Rundeck to me, i.e. parallel script dispatch? Idempotent models are kind of important when managing systems in production environments as systems can be in heterogenous states and well, scripts fail. Part of th
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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   Nice to see the relationships visualized. I think it's a bit more cloud provisioning focused than, say, general purpose orchestration -- but this is an important problem that needs to be solved too! For my take on this, see http://ansible
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   by mpdehaan2 14y ago

   So I can't say I'm worried much. Python strikes a very good balance between rapid development prototyping and something that is sustainable, and has an excellent level of readability that makes it outstanding for gathering patches from even
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    by mpdehaan2 14y ago

    I speeeeeeeaaaak whaaaaaaaaaaaleeeee