Hello, I have recently been seeing a boom in people using ansible for automating setting up vps’s, services, …

Is it worth it to learn ansible to do also automate the way I setup everything, or is a bash script good enough ( I know some bash scripting but ansible seems like it could be more worth the time to learn )?

  • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
    4•7 months ago

    I think others have covered the main points, but I found it hard going for 1 device (ie a Ras Pi, VM, etc), but then it was effortless when I wanted to add a 2nd (or more…), so at first pick the sensible uses, then consider ansible for that one-off device a little later…

    I like a few specific utils (tmux, nmon, htop) on all my devices: ansible script

    I want to update all the Ras Pis in the house: ansible script

    You get the picture…