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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Honestly, fuck Ansible.

It's the dialup of automation tools. It was probably amazing 10 years ago.

It's YAML is awful, it scales terribly, it's so fucking slow at literally everything, it gives people who have no clue what they're doing a false sense of confidence.

The number of times I've seen app teams waste the time of support groups and engineers because something went wrong and they didn't have the knowledge to know why and need to waste so many man hours having other people solve it for them. I (the engineer) was added to a chat that had 15 people in it because they, after running ansible, saw errors in their server... So clearly there was a problem with the server... At no point did they question there Ansible job.

Of the various tools I've used, I prefer Salt. The YAML is slightly less ass and it's so much faster while also seeming to scaling better too. It by no means is perfect.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

You had me at “fuck Ansible”.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for including an alternative you'd recommend!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well you will be happy to hear that it's owned by Broadcom now. While salt is better, I wouldn't use it just because of Broadcom.

But then again, Oracle now owns Redhat, so....

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oops yeah. Not sure why I was thinking Oracle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I also appreciate the alternative suggestion. No terraform love?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Terraform and Ansible do different things, they do have overlapping features, but ultimately they're meant to do different things. I use them both at my current job with Terraform running Ansible