Re:Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier
by chousuke on Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:09PM
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Ansible and Puppet are tools that do very different things. I mostly agree with you, but Ansible does work decently as an orchestrator.
You want to use tools like Puppet and Terraform to define the state of your systems, and Ansible to run operations on those systems, because not everything is stateless; trying to upgrade a database with Puppet or Terraform will be painful, but Ansible won't have trouble.
I do wish it had static typing (Puppet took 4 major releases to finally get it and its type system is its best feature over alternatives) and less YAML, but it is what it is...
You want to use tools like Puppet and Terraform to define the state of your systems, and Ansible to run operations on those systems, because not everything is stateless; trying to upgrade a database with Puppet or Terraform will be painful, but Ansible won't have trouble.
I do wish it had static typing (Puppet took 4 major releases to finally get it and its type system is its best feature over alternatives) and less YAML, but it is what it is...