Comment on Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers?
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 6 months agoI tend to grow my feel of server every couple months, and that requires me to once again setup everything for the beginning, settings, sshd, update debian if old version, new user for ssh, docker/podman, …
Quite literally added new vps to my fleet and spent 4 hourson setting all that up, when it could have been a simple ansible script.
oldfart@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Then yes, learning Ansible is a good way to have base OS settings for your systems. I love that it’s agentless - works over SSH.
The ugly part is that they keep updating it in a backwards incompatible way. In one version the paramerer is called “file” and in another it’s “dest”, they pull shit like this and don’t provide a tool to update playbooks automatically.
But updating is rather optional.
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 6 months ago
Sed comes into play there, or :%s in vim, whichever you prefer ;)