Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On 20/10/2022 15:47, Anssi Saari wrote: Philipp Ewald writes: Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? First try, its super complicated for me. For me it has been. ssh loops work too though. Sometimes I've felt Ansible whines needlessly, something like "please don't

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-21 Thread john doe
On 10/20/22 15:39, Philipp Ewald wrote: Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? Ansible is not easy to master but worth the time if you have lots of nodes! If you need to copy a file to multiple servers and have a custom config per node the 'template' module is your

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread paulf
On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:39:23 +0200 Philipp Ewald wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. > > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to > create the playbook then creating this file by hand

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Vic Simeone
I know it's not the intended use case but I primarily utilize Ansible for individual, customized hosts. It absolutely rocks when you have dozens of systems to manage though. For individual hosts I use it as a way of documenting how a system came to be in its state almost for disaster recovery

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Thierry Leurent
Hi Philipp, I don't have a very long and intense experience with Ansible. It doesn't seem complex to me, you have to use the same logic as if you were doing it manually. The biggest problem I have encountered is modifying a configuration file whose different cases are complex. Even with

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Philipp Ewald wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. > > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to create > the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax acomplicates >

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Philipp Ewald writes: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. For me it has been. ssh loops work too though. Sometimes I've felt Ansible whines needlessly, something like "please don't do what you need to do, do it our