Show HN: Ansible Kernel – Run Ansible Tasks and Plays with Jupyter Notebook

Re:Show HN: Ansible Kernel – Run Ansible Tasks and Plays wit... by throwaway5752 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:27PM (#17560877)

Sure, but that's not super different that series of commits along a feature branch. I think they accomplish the same goal. But am not dismissing notebooks as a way of doing that. I'm more familiar with ipython than jupyter, but particularly for more algorithmically complex programming tasks I think notebooks are a good tool.

I disagree with you only that this might be a good way of prototyping for something like ansible playbooks/modules, chef recipes, puppet manifests, etc. So much of the state is external (and intrinsic to what is being built) that I don't think it's a match of the rhythm of development there. But just my two cents, the best process is what works for you.

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Re:Show HN: Ansible Kernel – Run Ansible Tasks and Plays wit... by 1996 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:50PM (#17561948)

I agree with you, ansible may not be the best showcase of the notebook (much is external) but I think it still remains practical for prototyping: I consider the notebook as a giant notepad, that shows you at the same time your code and the results of the code - in multiple versions, as many as tabs. Better than tabs, or terminals

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