Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoAnsible casually administering hundreds or thousands of deviceslemmy.zipimagemessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down13
arrow-up139arrow-down1imageAnsible casually administering hundreds or thousands of deviceslemmy.zipPossibly linux@lemmy.zip to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoTerraform for day 0 operations is a better experience but it had its quirks. Ansible is nice when it’s done well, but when you don’t have an Ansible module for something, you’re essentially writing a shell script
minus-squareazvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoOr your own module in Python if it gets too complex to do with just Ansible https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html
Terraform for day 0 operations is a better experience but it had its quirks. Ansible is nice when it’s done well, but when you don’t have an Ansible module for something, you’re essentially writing a shell script
Or your own module in Python if it gets too complex to do with just Ansible https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html