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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by eropple on Sunday January 08, 2017 @12:16AM (#13348406)
The overwhelming majority of devops-related stuff I see is in Ruby, not Perl, and Python is a (distant) second to Ruby in that. I keep up with all three on the off hand that a client really has a burning desire to use Perl or Python, but it's Ruby as far as the eye can see in these parts.

Even stuff not written in Ruby invariably ends up with a Ruby DSL around it so mere humans can use it successfully.

Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by crdoconnor on Sunday January 08, 2017 @12:27AM (#13348450)
For me it used to be like that about 4 years ago - everything was built with puppet (ruby). Now people seem to have moved on to ansible.

Perl is nowhere to be seen. Bash still crops up occasionally.

Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by eropple on Sunday January 08, 2017 @12:32AM (#13348468)
Yeah, that's definitely true, and it depends on the composition of the shop in question. I see Ansible mostly in smaller shops with simpler needs. I see Chef more often once those needs grow a little bit (granted, I also endorse Chef when asked, because I'd rather have a real programming language to better express my intention--Puppet has the same issue). But I see most of that Ruby outside of the CM, dealing with the billion little glue problems involved in cloud crap. Bash too, of course, for obvious reasons.
Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by Spivak on Sunday January 08, 2017 @03:51PM (#13351943)
Now that RedHat bought Ansible and is integrating it with Satellite it's going to be a tough sell in our office if someone wants to use something other than Python for DevOps projects.