[ale] Automation tools...

[Jerald Sheets]

> On Dec 20, 2018, at 9:00 AM, Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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> I'm with Jerald on this one; Puppet and Ansible seem to be have the market share. Puppet has somewhat moved away from Pure Ruby under the hood, Ansible is Python 2.7 as of the Ansible 2.10 release, I think. Some movement towards Python 3 but not cut over yet.
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> Ansible wins if you have a diverse environment; you don't have to worry about "is there an agent for this OS?". If you can ssh or winrm to it, you're golden.
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> And DoD folks require passworded sudo, which Ansible supports.


I found that once Bolt was released, my use of Ansible waned dramatically.  Don’t get me wrong, we still have hundreds of thousands of hosts on it, I can just do everything in Bolt now over SSH & WinRM the same way.

I think Puppet realized they had to do something about the Ansible “issue”, and that’s why Bolt exists.

—j