On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:39:23 +0200 Philipp Ewald <philipp.ew...@digionline.de> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. > > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to > create the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax > acomplicates everything more) Then formatting is destroyed or need > more time on creating the playbook... > > It is so hard or im so bad? You might be bad (joke), but so is ansible. Actually, ansible is a great tool. It's flexible and can do almost anything. But the learning curve is steep. It's finicky about syntax, as you noted. I investigated a few of these packages, particularly ansible, a while back. When you look at how they work, they mostly operate the same way underneath all the syntax. I got tired of trying to work all this out and wrote my own configuration manager in bash, since I'm mostly familiar with bash syntax. You can try other alternatives like cfengine, but I suspect ansible is the most capable. Worst case, you can write a series of scripts using bash and rsync and ssh, and accomplish what you want without having to learn a whole new toolkit. Of course, if your job is a system administrator and you do this all the time with a lot of machines, I'd advise fully studying ansible and using it instead. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
