Take a look at traefik, even if you don't use containers

Re:Take a look at traefik, even if you don't use containers by samuell on Monday May 06, 2024 @05:31AM (#40272787)

Ansible is definitely requiring constant lookup in the documentation.

I've found a pretty good workflow with using ansible-doc though, with two-three aliases that I use constantly:

    alias adl='ansible-doc --list'
    alias adls='ansible-doc --list | less -S'
    alias ad='ansible-doc'

Then I'll:

1. Use adls to quickly search (in less with vim bindings) for relevant commands,

2. Check up the docs with `ad <command>`.

3. Almost always immediately jump to the end (`G`) to see the examples, which typically provides a direct answer to what I need.

Since authoring Ansible scripts is so dependent on the docs, I think they really should make this process work better out of the box though, providing some interface to do these lookups quicker without a lot of custom aliases.

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Re:Take a look at traefik, even if you don't use containers by bithaze on Monday May 06, 2024 @10:02AM (#40274815)

I keep the module index[0] in my bookmarks bar and that's also been pretty easy to search and read.

[0] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/index_mo...

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