Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On 20/10/2022 15:47, Anssi Saari wrote: Philipp Ewald writes: Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? First try, its super complicated for me. For me it has been. ssh loops work too though. Sometimes I've felt Ansible whines needlessly, something like "please don't

is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-21 Thread Samuel Henrique
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 14:45 Philipp Ewald wrote: > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to create > the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax acomplicates > everything more) > Then formatting is destroyed or need more time on creating the

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-21 Thread john doe
On 10/20/22 15:39, Philipp Ewald wrote: Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? Ansible is not easy to master but worth the time if you have lots of nodes! If you need to copy a file to multiple servers and have a custom config per node the 'template' module is your

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread paulf
On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:39:23 +0200 Philipp Ewald wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. > > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to > create the playbook then creating this file by hand

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Vic Simeone
I know it's not the intended use case but I primarily utilize Ansible for individual, customized hosts. It absolutely rocks when you have dozens of systems to manage though. For individual hosts I use it as a way of documenting how a system came to be in its state almost for disaster recovery

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Thierry Leurent
with another method, it would be. From: Philipp Ewald Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2022 3:39:23 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: is Ansible easy to use? Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? First try, its super complicated for me

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Philipp Ewald wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. > > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to create > the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax acomplicates >

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Philipp Ewald writes: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. For me it has been. ssh loops work too though. Sometimes I've felt Ansible whines needlessly, something like "please don't do what you need to do, do it our

is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Philipp Ewald
Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? First try, its super complicated for me. Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to create the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax acomplicates everything more) Then formatting is