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On 17/09/2014 09:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:43:18 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> Anyone here used ansible and at least one of puppet/chef? |
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>> What are your thoughts? |
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>> I've made several attempts over the years to get puppet going but never |
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>> really got it off the ground. Chef I stay away from (likely due to the |
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>> first demo of it I saw and how badly that went....) |
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>> Puppet seems to me a good product for a large site with 1000 hosts. |
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>> Not so much for ~20 or so. Plus puppet's language and configs get large |
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>> and hard to keep track of - lots and lots of directory trees with many |
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>> things mentioning other things. (Nagios has the same problem if you |
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>> start keeping host, services, groups and commands in many different files) |
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>> I've stumbled upon ansible, it seems much better than puppet for |
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>> smallish sites with good odds I might even keep the whole thing in my |
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>> head at any one time :-) |
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>> Anyone care to share experiences? |
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> No experiences yet, but I have been looking for options to quickly and easily |
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> create (and remove) VMs lab environments. |
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Have you tried Vagrant? |
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I haven't tried it myself, I'm just reacting to the "VM" keyword ;-) |
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> I agree with your comments on Chef and Puppet. |
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> Ansible looks nice and seems easy to manage. I miss an option to store the |
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> configuration inside a database, but I don't see an issue adding the |
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> generation of the config-files from database tables to the rest of the |
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> environment I am working on. |
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Ansible has an add-on called Tower that seems to do this. The marketing |
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blurb implies you can use almost any storage backend you like from MySQL |
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and PostGres to LDAP |
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> I like that Ansible also seems to support MS Windows nodes, just too bad that |
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> requires enabling it after install. But with this, cloning VMs and changing |
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> the network configs afterwards seems easier to manage. |
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I'm lucky, this is a Unix-only shop so I don't have to deal with Windows |
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servers. The three managers who have Windows laptops for varying reasons |
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have all been clearly told upfront they will support themselves and I |
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ain't touching it :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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