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Re:Dead ends of information technology by unixhero on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:25PM (#29346705)
Ansible is a powertool for implementing idempotent configuration management. That pattern / paradigm is here to stay.
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Re:Dead ends of information technology by theonemind on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:42PM (#29346791)
I'd never call anything imperative (as opposed to declarative) a power-tool for implementing idempotent anything.
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Re:Dead ends of information technology by rout39574 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:01PM (#29346879)
Amen. Useful tool _in which one might_ implement idempotent patterns, yeah.
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Re:Dead ends of information technology by selfhoster11 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:04PM (#29347387)
It pretty much is declarative enough to count, if you describe your operations in enough detail and rely on modules where you can. Not many people bother to go 100%, but you can easily get to 99%.
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