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 )?

  • @oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    Then yes, learning Ansible is a good way to have base OS settings for your systems. I love that it’s agentless - works over SSH.

    The ugly part is that they keep updating it in a backwards incompatible way. In one version the paramerer is called “file” and in another it’s “dest”, they pull shit like this and don’t provide a tool to update playbooks automatically.

    But updating is rather optional.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      Sed comes into play there, or :%s in vim, whichever you prefer ;)