Hi Robert, Let me try to answer your question as I also just got into ansible for the past two or so weeks.
Ansible is agentless therefore you don't need to add anything to your existing infrastructure in order use it, this is one feature that has really made me dig in more into it. SSH access for me, is all I need. My starting point was to split my hosts file into various catergories ( webservers, dbservers, mails etc) of the existing infrastructure I am managing. I have since then run simple playbooks like getting os details using the "setup" module. I have had a good start with it and I already foresee so many possibilities. Regards, David. On 10 January 2016 at 19:22, Robert Haskins <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to Ansible and trying to learn how it might work in my > environment. I was wondering if there was a mechanism whereby one could > generate an Ansible config for an already running machine that was not > built under Ansible? In other words, I would like to convert my existing > non-Ansible managed infrastructure to be managed by Ansible. A sane > starting place would seem to be some method to convert my existing vm's to > Ansible without a bunch of "manual" work. > > My apologies if this is a FAQ but I could not find anything on the topic > when I searched for it. > > Thanks! > > -- > 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/e6af83bd-f100-4712-894a-33761932fd27%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e6af83bd-f100-4712-894a-33761932fd27%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAHM9YQqpx1xgr2DywWqo_qcvwQuaUFqQfpK6K3V1BPYd83eKgw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
