On 2015-11-07 08:31, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 
> Let me suggest that editing files in place is a really finicky
> operation, and it would be better to do something like:

Ansible modules typically have an option to make backups of the file they 
modify.


> Even better is to not be in this situation in the first place,
> by deploying all the config via generation from
> version-controlled management systems.

You typically modify files with ansible when say you install a new package and
you want to change just a few lines from the original, which is often better
with upgrades etc... The alternative is the template module.

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