Ah, allow me to apologize then. Since I did not see any mention as to why you 
possibly didn’t think ansible would serve us well for this job I had wrongly 
assumed you to had maybe demo’d or just got handed the task of automating in 
your organization and didn’t have time to research or test it before go live, 
causing a bad experience from it possibly. 

The idea for ansible in this case would be to simply manage the zones for us on 
record changes which allowed me to come up with a front end so our customers 
would have self service for the ones that do not pay us to manage their zone 
for them. Trying not to have to re-invent the wheel and write some sort of API 
that did some sort of regex nightmare in shell against the zones, etc for 
simple changes. I can much more easily write a form that generates YML I need 
with the data. The next step is to actually interface with ansible at the API 
level to remove the having to generate YML and run cli commands all together, 
but I’m only one person and coding isn’t even more area of expertise, so in 
time lol.

Yes I have been a part of that same boat a few times myself elsewhere but 
fortunately where I am now, they seem to understand if I make them more money, 
it has to work both ways. They agreed so the arrangement is working quite well 
and I appreciate the remark. 

regards,
m

> On Jan 19, 2020, at 2:01 PM, John W. Blue <john.b...@rrcic.com> wrote:
> 
> Since it sounds like you have not had much experience with, I urge you to 
> check it out should you have anything in your environment that could benefit 
> from automation. Simply telling someone to chunk it and not have any 
> experience with it is a little misguided IMO.
>  
> We pay multiple different teams to play in the ansible, docker, kubernetes et 
> al sandbox so, yeah, I admittedly do *need* to have much experience.  My 
> comments are not an indictment against ansible itself because I observe it 
> being used to create basic servers on a regular basis.  It does a fantastic 
> job.  Rather I was questioning the use of ansible to specifically deploy DNS 
> servers.
> 
> Since you updated your comments to mention that you all are selling DNS 
> services, the choice of ansible now makes more sense.
> 
> I've worked in the MSP space in the past and my general observation is that 
> it is a sweat shop with no loyalty in a race to the bottom of how low of a 
> salary they can get away with paying.  I genuinely hope your experience will 
> be different.
> 
> John
> 
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