I just wanted to ping everyone on this again. I've haven't received any responses and would really like the communities feedback.
Thanks, Mike On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 9:32:30 AM UTC-5, Michael Dunn wrote: > > Hi All, > Thanks for taking the time to read this. > > I'm a developer within a pretty large research university. My unit has > been using Ansible for about a year now and were the first team to do so on > campus so we've already built up a substantial Git repo with playbooks, etc. > > The organization as a whole is moving in to AWS and I'm being forced to > justify to one of our architects why I think that our team should be > allowed to have its own Ansible control server in AWS (really, by > extension, why we should have just one for the entire organization). Here > are my thoughts, but I'd really appreciate anyone else's feedback... > including if you think I'm totally wrong! > > From my perspective, it makes sense to have a separate Ansible control > machine under the following circumstances: > > 1. A team/unit manages the full dev-ops cycle for a fleet of servers. > Even if these servers share a data center with other machines, they are > fully under the ownership of a given team. > 2. To use the 'central' control server would require extra > coordination (merge Git repos, coordinating playbook runs) across team > lines and the cost of having a separate control machine is minimal. > 3. Having a separate control server prevents accidental access/munging > of a units servers by other teams (since separate control servers would > not > have SSH keys - or equivalent access methods - to other teams servers). > > > Any additional thoughts would be greatly appreciated! > > Mike Dunn > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/3934dca1-3f10-4fca-a51f-754b3ef9ebaf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
