On Monday, January 11, 2016 at 5:41:02 AM UTC-8, Robert Haskins 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. > > > How in heaven's name would any tool know what you built, how you built it, and how to recreate it ? That's just fantasy-land. There are an infinite number of ways of getting a system setup from rpms or tgz or git pulls or hand-configuring etc.
You can easily convert a hand-built system to a ansible-configured one, but you need to do the heavy lifting at least once. -- 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/f957434f-93c0-4c05-9b40-c164eb831e8d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
