3 years ago

Category: Software, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Infrastructure, automation, yaml, ansible, puppet

There are a lot of DevOps tools out there. Maybe you are investigating Ansible due to moving to a new platform, and there is a need to manage all the resources. Or you have a heap of handcrafted scripts to manage your infrastructure, but maintaining them is becoming painful.

It is easy to do easy things with Ansible, and the more difficult tasks are not too hard either as Ansible allows for loops and other constructs that take the YAML a step towards an actual programming language where anything is possible.

But for the sake of realism^wkeeping my colleagues happy, there are some things that might bug you with Ansible.