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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by king_phil on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:06AM (#22575347)
But... How do you configure the hosts where your containers are running on? How do you configure your storage (NAS/SAN)? How do you configure your routers and switches? ...
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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by grrywlsn on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:08AM (#22575368)
The original question didn't have much context, and I guess my answer assumed someone would be using a cloud provider as opposed to anything on premise.

Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?

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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by throw0101a on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:47PM (#22577066)
> Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?

Ansible is used in networking, which many vendors having official modules:

* https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/ansible-pan

* https://github.com/aristanetworks/ansible-cvp

* https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos-ansible/in...

* https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible

There are even frameworks if you want to write things in 'raw' Python as well.

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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by notacoward on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:26AM (#22575495)
> Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?

Yes. Well, OK, maybe not good but better than ad hoc.

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Re:Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/sho... by jcrben on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:46PM (#22576636)
Build the underlying vms with packer. Or use cloud-init as the parent mentioned - I think it has a bunch of knobs.
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