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howtos:slackware_admin:slackware_automation_using_ansible [2016/08/19 03:02 (UTC)] – created mmlj4howtos:slackware_admin:slackware_automation_using_ansible [2016/08/19 03:10 (UTC)] – [Rational, and What Is Ansible, Anyway?] mmlj4
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 ===== Rational, and What Is Ansible, Anyway? ===== ===== Rational, and What Is Ansible, Anyway? =====
  
-Like everyone else, I used to write Perl and bash scripts to automate things, but decided to learn the modern way of doing such things. I looked at Puppet initially but decided instead to learn Ansible instead. I wrote a simple collection of Perl scripts and Ansible playbooks to be run on a fresh Slackware installed, and was told in Freenode #slackware that I ought to write something for the wiki, which brings us up to date.+Like everyone else, I used to write Perl and bash scripts to automate things, but decided to learn the modern way of doing such things. I looked at Puppet initially but decided to learn Ansible instead. I wrote a simple collection of Perl scripts and Ansible playbooks to be run on a fresh Slackware install, and was told in Freenode #slackware that I ought to write something for the wiki, which brings us up to date.
  
-So what is [[https://www.ansible.com/|Ansible]]? It's a buzzword-compliant IT automation automation platform, comparable to Chef, Puppet, Saltstack and whatever else the cool kids are using this week. Ansible's advantages over its competitors is that it's lightweight (it runs over SSH) and it's simple to understand and use. If you're new to Ansible, you might want to take a look at the [[http://docs.ansible.com|official docs]] first.+So what is [[https://www.ansible.com/|Ansible]]? It's a buzzword-compliant IT automation platform, comparable to Chef, Puppet, Saltstack and whatever else the cool kids are using this week. Ansible's advantages over its competitors is that it's lightweight (it runs over SSH) and it's simple to understand and use. If you're new to Ansible, you might want to take a look at the [[http://docs.ansible.com|official docs]] first.
  
 ===== Bootstrap A Fresh Slackware Install ===== ===== Bootstrap A Fresh Slackware Install =====

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