[ale] Ansible related talks possible ?

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 10:54 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> On 03/13/2017 10:24 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I guess ssh keys and custom bash scripts are no longer cool :-(
> 
> Your crap scripts (and mine) don't scale to 1M admins world-wide
> across
> 5-5,000 systems inside their companies. 

My measly 100+ systems are all basically different systems with
different design needs. Other than a block of identical HPC machines
and a block of identical VM machines, the only tying factor is they run
CentOS 6 (old - up for migration) or 7. If I ever get systems that are
more than 50% similar I can justify adding a new-hotness layer for
config especially if it saves me time. So far, not there yet. I do have
one group that is using ansible for a complicated deployment of a
zillion piece application. I recall it took nearly 6 months to get the
playbook to be usable (it's a VERY hairy application stack) when there
was a working bash script that did the same thing based off my one-
time, by-hand installation and some "set name and IP' scripting that
understood RHEL6 and RHEL7 versions. Currently, there's no process to
upgrade this stack. It's still dump and deploy. <sigh> Everything is a
work in progress.
Happily, my crap scripts (that's a pretty decent description, too. Most
are not planned as 'applications' but as a short way to automate a task
across 3-10 systems that organically grows to meet the needs of others
until I fork and create new for next batch of weirdness.) don't have to
get played by 5M admins worldwide. They would go blind, get itchy palms
and drink buttermilk sodas if they did.
>  That's the only reason I prefer
> Ansible. It isn't python (which I dislike) is the best tool, but the
> common method and understanding is critical.
> 
> I'm with James.
> 
> IMHO.
> 
> Golf clap on everyone stepping up to present.  <clap> <clap>
> Thanks guys!

+1!
> -jd
> 
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