Why do yoy have started twice? I don't think I am following properly. Can you please be more specific? On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 at 10:11 AM jane p <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 4:41 PM Wei-Yen Tan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ansible is a tool for configuration management which has been aptly been > explained but I will explain further to give some detail . The second use > case is orchestration. > > > > If you program say with a script you tell it what to do. You have to > control from the start to finish the logic what to do. It is in order. > > > > When you use ansible you don't have to program. You just say I want > this thing to look like this and it will do it. But ansible can put things > in order too in other words orchestration. This becomes powerful because it > allows people to write what could be otherwise complex code into something > that is concise. > > > > Wei-Yen, > > yes, this is exactly what I am struggling with. > > Defining a state is not simple. > At the base level Ansible provides serviced module that recognizes > started, stopped, restarted, reloaded states. > When a service is deployed as part of a larger system, the state space > is different: > - started at version X > - started at version Y > - stopped > - restarted at version X > - restarted at version Y > - etc > > The versions are managed by other tasks in the playbook that are > performed in specified sequence. > Depending on at what point in the playbook execution and whether this > task is run, the service may end up in either version X or version Y. > > serviced: > state: > - restarted > > Driving X to Y change is powerful, but seems far from concise. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAGB%3D%3DuL3WoZQv%3DfCuA0s%2BWCqg5%2BOk7HEvF2cHjg%3DjqVEpzO2YQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BjXPxiAHHiJ1GVNx2vN_yT0Cn42LDn_tL8%3D89OodB32u2Y%3DUw%40mail.gmail.com.
