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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] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes it is absolutely worth it. I'm personally using SaltStack because I already knew some but if I were starting anew I'd go with Ansible. I completely disagree with the opinion that it's similar to Bash but I don't have the energy to go into detail for why. From user's perspective, config management code is much clearer to read and write, much less error prone than bash scripts and it's easy to reuse other people's battle tested code (often in production) to deploy things for yourself. Personally I find it way easier to read Salt code I forgot everything about than Bash.