That makes much more sense. Thank you for clearing that up. I'll do some testing and see if ansible-pull alone will meet my needs.
On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 8:50:00 AM UTC-5, Brian Coca wrote: > > For ansible-pull, the file can be named local.yml or localhost.yml > which does not represent the targeted hosts, that is in the - hosts: > clause of each play (which ansible-pull will limit to the current host > by matching 'localhost' or the 'fqdn'. > > This allows you to have a single file and then run it against all > hosts, which will run the plays into which the host matches > name/groups as defined in inventory. > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:07 AM, SFT- <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I really like the push aspect of Ansible for those times when a change > needs > > to happen immediately. I would like to also ensure compliance across > system > > without having to manually push all the time. What are others doing for > > this scenario? ansible-pull looks interesting and I'll be investigating > it, > > but it seems on the surface that you'd end up maintaining a large number > of > > <hostname>.yml playbooks. I could also run ansible-playbook on a cron > on a > > "master" server. > > > > Any thoughts on how others have approached this? Is this why some are > still > > using puppet or chef in addition to Ansible? > > > > Steve > > > > -- > > 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] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a4c49e1b-49a1-4104-83f2-72129bb51786%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Brian Coca > -- 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/6d264c27-eae9-40ea-a6db-9e176db33860%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
