Just trying to find out of others use ansible for my edge case. I get that most people orchestrate many servers with ansible.
I use ansible to build one-off provisioning scripts. I am not a system admin type and more of a developer. I find ansible very valuable (like it has changed my professional life) for capturing my incremental learning of provisioning steps, and when I’m done I can build test, staging, and prod servers for various applications.
Michael and team, thanks for Ansible!
At risk of bikeshed discussions I am not interested in another site reorg at this time.
We will be working on building an index in the future and so on and modules may be split by section soon, TBD.
– Michael
Michael,
I think you replied to the wrong thread. But I posted both.
Okay not a problem. You have to decide where to spend your time. Should you want searching or site organizational help in the future just ask.
Eric Palmer
http://www.richmond.edu/
http://rva.hometownjunket.com/
We do this at my current employer as well. I now use Ansible for a few more
things than just initial provisioning, but the nature of our setup is such
that once initial provisioning is done, most systems are not the same.
Making "global" plays difficult.
I think that's what I like best about this community too. The "help you out
and get out of the way" philosophy is wonderful.
+1
I am trying to get Ansible manage my workstation (which is random node in the cloud), and I am currently struggling to avoid typing inventory file every time.
can you associate it with a ip or even a host name in route53. When you start up the instance you can use an aws cli script to associate the instance dns name with a standard name and use that. Or create an elastic ip and use aws cli to associate the elastic ip with the ec2 dns name.
eric
This is not exactly Amazon cloud, but thanks for the hints. The way I
use this is usually behind NAT, so I checkout Ansible with playbook
and run them locally.