<html><head></head><body><div>On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 10:54 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On 03/13/2017 10:24 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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I guess ssh keys and custom bash scripts are no longer cool :-(
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Your crap scripts (and mine) don't scale to 1M admins world-wide across
5-5,000 systems inside their companies. </pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My measly 100+ systems are all basically different systems with different design needs. Other than a block of identical HPC machines and a block of identical VM machines, the only tying factor is they run CentOS 6 (old - up for migration) or 7. If I ever get systems that are more than 50% similar I can justify adding a new-hotness layer for config especially if it saves me time. So far, not there yet. I do have one group that is using ansible for a complicated deployment of a zillion piece application. I recall it took nearly 6 months to get the playbook to be usable (it's a VERY hairy application stack) when there was a working bash script that did the same thing based off my one-time, by-hand installation and some "set name and IP' scripting that understood RHEL6 and RHEL7 versions. Currently, there's no process to upgrade this stack. It's still dump and deploy. <sigh> Everything is a work in progress.</div><div><br></div><div>Happily, my crap scripts (that's a pretty decent description, too. Most are not planned as 'applications' but as a short way to automate a task across 3-10 systems that organically grows to meet the needs of others until I fork and create new for next batch of weirdness.) don't have to get played by 5M admins worldwide. They would go blind, get itchy palms and drink buttermilk sodas if they did.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre> That's the only reason I prefer
Ansible. It isn't python (which I dislike) is the best tool, but the
common method and understanding is critical.
I'm with James.
IMHO.
Golf clap on everyone stepping up to present. <clap> <clap>
Thanks guys!
</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1!</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>-jd
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</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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