Hi, On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 11:41:07AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > Is there some sort of minimal ansible that will let me do central > management of root-owned files?
It doesn't seem like a good idea. Wanting config management but then wanting it to be very limited seems like a niche audience. There's only room in my brain for so much information; I'd rather learn transferable skills like Ansible and just keep my use of it simple, rather than learn a whole other thing that isn't going to be applicable anywhere else. Just making a virtualenv, installing Ansible in it and then creating a playbook that only uses the file, copy and template modules seems really lightweight to me. If you are literally only distributing files you could just make Debian packages that only contain the files. Put them in a local apt repository. Your hosts see updated versions when you increment the version number. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
