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Re: Thoughts on Ansible?

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On 08/20/2017 11:45 AM, deloptes wrote:
> RavenLX wrote:
> 
>> A friend suggested Ansible, but I think I agree with you that for what I
>> do, Ansible would be overkill. I have two laptops that I keep pretty
>> identical and so far have done well doing so with only a bash script I
>> wrote. As for servers I only maintain 1 web server and an identical test
>> server that is a virtual machine on my own computer. So I don't have a
>> lot of machines. (Well, to me they are not a lot).
>>
> 
> Yes indeed, I think ansible is best when used to manage machines of similar
> kind. If you want to keep your notebooks to same package and config level
> it could be of advantage to write a simple ansible playbook to upgrade and
> configure.
> 
> My experience is from a LXD project - roll out of the physical and then
> virtual servers ... about 100+ in total.
> 
>> Yaml is new to me. I'll have to look into it. I know a little about JSON
>> and XML but that's it.
> 
> Similar to JSON, but other logic and format. Don't worry if you have time to
> play a bit, ansible could be fun and you can not only get management for
> your notebooks, vms etc, but also learn YAML.
> 
> Note: under jessie you need to install and configure virtual python3 env and
> pip install ansible into it.
> 
> Best use latest (and greatest) ansible version
> 
> regards

For what I do, I would install Debian (Stretch is what I'm currently 
using) without any Desktop environment. Then my Bash Script installs a 
minimum KDE (without a lot of the dependent software I never use). Then 
reboots and I re-run the script in a terminal, which detects KDE is now 
running and goes about installing all the rest of the stuff and updating 
configurations, etc. Works great on both machines.

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Thoughts on Anible? RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-19 01:10 +0200
  Re: Thoughts on Anible? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-19 08:50 +0200
    Re: Thoughts on Ansible? RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-20 15:50 +0200
      Re: Thoughts on Ansible? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 17:50 +0200
        Re: Thoughts on Ansible? RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-22 14:50 +0200
          Re: Thoughts on Ansible? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 18:40 +0200
  Re: Thoughts on Anible? Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2017-08-19 17:20 +0200
    Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-19 17:20 +0200
      Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-19 20:40 +0200
        Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2017-08-19 21:50 +0200
          Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-20 01:50 +0200
        Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-08-20 00:00 +0200
          Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 01:40 +0200
            Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-08-20 12:50 +0200
              Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 13:00 +0200
            Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-22 15:00 +0200
              Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 18:50 +0200
          Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?] RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-22 15:00 +0200
  Re: Thoughts on Anible? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2017-08-20 13:10 +0200
    Re: Thoughts on Anible? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 17:50 +0200

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