Re: [ansible-project] Where do you run Ansible from for managing an EC2 cluster?

2015-01-01 Thread Brent Langston
for non config type stuff, we run from local notebooks, or an admin host (triggered by our chatbot), depending on what is happening, and who is triggering it. Brent On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Gary Malouf wrote: > Interesting, you are deploying ansible in on each of your

Re: [ansible-project] Where do you run Ansible from for managing an EC2 cluster?

2014-12-31 Thread Gary Malouf
Interesting, you are deploying ansible in on each of your production servers and running it in local mode. I've done that for experimentation, but did not consider doing it at scale. To avoid confusion - by local I was asking if people are running playbooks from their personal machine rather t

Re: [ansible-project] Where do you run Ansible from for managing an EC2 cluster?

2014-12-31 Thread Brent Langston
And by "goat", I mean host. :-) On Dec 31, 2014 10:25 PM, "Brent Langston" wrote: > We, at hioscar.com, run ansible local from the local goat for all config > runs from cron, every 10 minutes. > > Pros: > It's fast > It's automatic, so devs don't need direct access to our systems. > > Con: > It i

Re: [ansible-project] Where do you run Ansible from for managing an EC2 cluster?

2014-12-31 Thread Brent Langston
We, at hioscar.com, run ansible local from the local goat for all config runs from cron, every 10 minutes. Pros: It's fast It's automatic, so devs don't need direct access to our systems. Con: It isn't aware of the whole inventory, mainly due to our setup. This ends up complicating things when yo

[ansible-project] Where do you run Ansible from for managing an EC2 cluster?

2014-12-31 Thread Gary Malouf
In the past, we ran Ansible on our bastion aka jump host. I've seen many postings online that people actually install Ansible locally and manage it completely from there. What are the pros and cons of going with that setup over having Ansible installed on an instance? -- You received this me