On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 3:05 PM Dirk Streubel <[email protected]> wrote:
> why is Ansible be part of the new RHCE exam? > Replace Ansible with any Enterprise Configuration Management solution. I was *not* arguing for Ansible, I was arguing, to quote myself ... >> Unfortunately we're reaching the point where Automation is standard, not just for CI/CD Dev tooling environments. >> So there's a good argument or LPIC-2 sysadmins to at least know how to identify and even kick off Ansible playbooks. >> Same with a system that pulls Puppet manifests of modules, and could modify the system. >> At some point we're probably even going to see basic identification in the 102 exam (LPIC-1 level).** BTW, Red Hat tried to acquire Puppet Labs prior, and it's integrated into Red Hat Satellite. So it's never been an Ansible-only aspect. That's why I said 'same with a system that pulls Puppet manifests.' Some Enterprise environments use *both* too -- Puppet for base/pull, Ansible for post-build operations/modificatoins. > Maybe the reason is that Red Hat had bought Ansible from Michael DeHaan in > 2015 and want to push Ansible to be the Number 1 configuration management > tool in the Linux World? > Again, you're missing the point. My argument had nothing to do with Ansible. It had to do with the fact automation is becoming required of Senior SysAdmins today. That's just the reality now. - bjs
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