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Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers? (lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, I have recently been seeing a boom in people using ansible for automating setting up vps's, services, ...

Is it worth it to learn ansible to do also automate the way I setup everything, or is a bash script good enough ( I know some bash scripting but ansible seems like it could be more worth the time to learn )?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I have been setting it up on my home, still not done but I can already see some benefits from it, e.g. I'm about to build a new server and migrate a lot of stuff to it, with ansible it will be very easy to just move some configs around and setup the server in no time at all. It also is encouraging me to keep a standard on how I do things which is great, and after setting up some initial things now adding new services is quite straightforward.

Overall I think there are a lot of positives about it, especially if you have multiple machines to manage. But even for a single one the fact that you can recreate everything from scratch in just one command is quite awesome considering the amount of times I've redone my server from 0 for different reasons over the past years.