Re: [ansible-project] What are the possible setups for ansible in the cloud to configure on premise devices?

2020-05-23 Thread David Foley
> > >>- What is your Cloud Service Provider that this PoC will take place ? >> - Using just "OpenVPN" Soultion on a cloud provider isn't best >> practice when it comes to Security you can download an OpenVPN >> instance on >> EC2 market, but you may have better option

Re: [ansible-project] What are the possible setups for ansible in the cloud to configure on premise devices?

2020-05-22 Thread Nicolas Charalambous
Hello Dick, Thank you for your reply, I know the setup is a bit atypical but the "question" came from the university. So I had to find a solution to set it up and I know it wasn't the most optimal solution that I did. If the ansible server was also on premise it would have been a piece of

Re: [ansible-project] What are the possible setups for ansible in the cloud to configure on premise devices?

2020-05-17 Thread Vladimir Botka
On Sun, 17 May 2020 08:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Nicolas Charalambous wrote: > "How do I use Ansible in a production environment to configure a large > number of on-premise devices via a cloud environment?" An elegant and flexible solution would be to build the architecture on "ansible-pull" (similar

Re: [ansible-project] What are the possible setups for ansible in the cloud to configure on premise devices?

2020-05-17 Thread Dick Visser
Hi This sounds a bit atypical tbh. It's more common (and useful imho) to do it the other way around. You have an "on-prem" ansible control node, which is used to configure cloud based VMs. I wonder what the usecase for your setup is? As you already found out, you will have to set up and manage

[ansible-project] What are the possible setups for ansible in the cloud to configure on premise devices?

2020-05-17 Thread Nicolas Charalambous
Hello guys, I'm in the last year of my studies and the question in the title is to help me write my bachelor thesis. My bachelor thesis is part a technical research(make a proof of concept.) and literature study. The research that I did was based around 1 question: "How do I use Ansible in