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I’m looking at ways to improve the way we do config management and I read really good things about Ansible.

I know Ansible is very good at managing deploy time OS and env config, however, when it comes to app/code config it gets a bit tricky as there are various levels of config: build vs deploy vs runtime/dynamic.

For dynamic/runtime config I’m thinking about tools like Zookeeper, but I’m also keen on using feature toggles that have their own config (similar to Togglz framework).

Ideally, I would like to not manage config in multiple places, but have one place where all the tools (Ansible, Zookeeper and Togglz) can pull the config from (or have it pushed from that central place).

Any ideas how to approach something like this with Ansible?

Thanks,
Florin

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Ansible is very good at deploying apps and in fact excels at doing things like zero downtime rolling updates, which are neccessary in doing app upgrades.

ZooKeeper is a system of babysitting services, the two are very orthogonal.

If you’re talking about doing builds, look to things like Jenkins to produce artifacts and get Ansible to deploy them.

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Hi Michael,
Thank for the reply. I would like to chat with you in more detail about how I could use Ansible for our needs.
I will send you an email from my work email address.

Thanks,
Florin