Resistance from co-workers is a big problem... Legacy systems is another one but can be dealt with...
In some cases their are other issues though... But equally it is not always possible to replace manual installations. I am not an Oracle DBA and in the organisation I work for the DBAs are a separate team. While it might be possible for me to automate Oracle installation and configuration, I don't know what to do, and I don't think that they would let me. (Heck, they don't listen when I tell them that asmlib is not needed, is a hack, and we should use the OS equivalent which is better supported) Some of our installs could be automated, but when you only install the app once on two machines and the vendor supplied instructions are several hundred pages, I am not going there. If the vendor wants to automate their install process then great, but in that case I am not. (The application, database, message bus, DNS entries, file systems, network settings, etc are all detailed. The application alone consists of several hundred daemons and has its own registry...) Finally I also have to deal with some systems which have been approved by a regulatory agency. Those ones cannot be changed without a lot more approval work. In those cases we are mostly at the mercy of the application vendor. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAGvoTo2LkzO7p4ZLPezLsU32Zu3mDAouadkTTij_eo1qJ%3DMi5Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
