Hi all -
Given a production environment with slightly more than 1000 VMs, across four geographically dispersed datacenters, how long would you allocate for a moderately paced (non-aggressive timeline) to implement ansible?
I know this is very open ended. Over the past year, we've implemented Jenkins, Nexus & Tower. I've written ansible roles for about 30 applications including web apps, tomcat installation, SSO solutions, and standalone Java apps.
My executive team understands it is a long road to travel down to have installation fully automated, and I'm only focusing on the server and application stack (not the network or underlying storage) for now.
So, given all of that information, and the experience you've had, how long would you estimate to have an application stack totaling ~200 applications to take to automate? Two years provided minimal political non-sense? Less? More? Should I be padding more?
Thanks,
Adam