Re: [ansible-project] Multiple instances of Ansible to deliver to production and non-production environments

2016-02-17 Thread Byron Mabbett
Thanks Dick, 'policy scar tissue' :') Thats great, I am going to use that. It's more that we have had no CM, it all been manual in the past. Have tried to say by implementing Ansible we do no need the complete separation, so will have to prove it. The agentless of ansible was the key point for

Re: [ansible-project] Multiple instances of Ansible to deliver to production and non-production environments

2016-02-16 Thread Dick Davies
We run the same playbooks against 7 (!) various staging environments, with a different inventory for each. Per-environment config goes into the inventory under the [all:vars] key - including things like versions of RPMs etc. SSH credentials are managed out of band, but there's a central git repo

Re: [ansible-project] Multiple instances of Ansible to deliver to production and non-production environments

2016-02-15 Thread Maciej Delmanowski
Hey Byron, I'm using Ansible with multiple environments daily and it's very easy once you unlearn what Ansible documentation presents as a best practice. :-) First, forget about /etc/ansible/ directory and its contents. Instead, in your home directory create separate directories, each one for a

[ansible-project] Multiple instances of Ansible to deliver to production and non-production environments

2016-02-15 Thread Byron Mabbett
HI All, First post and we are looking to implement Ansible into a new cloud environment for multiple legacy systems. Sorry but there is a bit of a story first and this is more a setup/component architecture question as we have a security constraint that production and non-production data