Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 13:58 Mike Oliver wrote: ... > > Mike, thanks for your help. I just ordered the eBook you suggested. The book is very helpful. The cookbook approach is my favorite for these kind of topics. After you get your feet wet, be sure to check out Ansible Galaxy >

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Oliver
Tom Browder writes: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 9:46 AM Mike Oliver wrote: >> Tom Browder writes: > ... > > Mike, thanks for your help. I just ordered the eBook you suggested. > And, after looking at Rex, I think I'll try the Ansible route for now > (although porting it to Raku would be an

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:09 PM Yvan Masson wrote: ... > I can only answer this question: I use Ansible regularly, and I am > satisfied because it works :-) and the setup is really easy compared to > what I understood from other tools (did'nt know Rex). Push mode also > seems the way to go if

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 9:46 AM Mike Oliver wrote: > Tom Browder writes: ... Mike, thanks for your help. I just ordered the eBook you suggested. And, after looking at Rex, I think I'll try the Ansible route for now (although porting it to Raku would be an interesting project). Cheers! -Tom

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Yvan Masson
Hi, Le 11/02/2020 à 16:08, Tom Browder a écrit : I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop. I have three questions: 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 09:25 Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: ... > If you have flocks of nearly identical servers in several > flavors, you want Puppet or Chef or something similar. > ... > Puppet has its own language for configuration. > > Both take the approach that a long-running

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 09:38 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 2/11/20 4:08 PM, Tom Browder wrote: ... > > 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you > > satisfied with the experience? > ... > I won't say much about ansible since I didn't use it long enough. > If you need

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Thomas Pircher
Mike Oliver wrote: > Managing Debian with Ansible is pretty similar to managing > just about every other Linux distribution, This is my experience as well. > with a few minor tweaks > (e.g. using the 'apt' module for managing packages instead of yum/dnf). For simple tasks one can use the

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Oliver
Tom Browder writes: > I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining > multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop. > > I have three questions: > > 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you > satisfied with the

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Oliver
Tom Browder writes: > I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining > multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop. > > I have three questions: > > 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you > satisfied with the

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 2/11/20 4:08 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop. I have three questions: 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you satisfied with

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining > multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop. If you have a few, mostly different servers, Ansible is a reasonable choice. If you have flocks of nearly identical servers in

Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Tom Browder
I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop. I have three questions: 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you satisfied with the experience? 2. There are many published