Ask HN: Curious about Ansible but afraid or blocked on getting started?

by MaknMoreGtnLess on 2/28/2022, 5:27:37 PM with 9 comments
Are you curious about Ansible [0] for your CM, IaC needs but afraid or blocked on getting started?

1. What are some of the blockers 2. What will (significantly) improve for you if you became proficient in Ansible? 3. Are there some things that you just can't do right not but would be easuer if you became proficient in Ansible?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible_(software)

  • by shoo on 2/28/2022, 8:23:38 PM

    At the $dayjob I don't see anyone use ansible or comparable tools (chef, puppet, ...) any more. It's all managed cloud services and containers. Much of the job that ansible or other config management tools might have done is handled by docker build to bake container images, and k8s to manage custom running services. Terraform however gets widely used to wrangle state.

  • by emiliobool on 2/28/2022, 7:38:24 PM

    I am afraid of getting started, I have read playbooks before and they look understandable but the idea of setting up the tools scares me. I’m starting to think this is PTSD from how hard installing anything was back then and now trying anything new is hard even if the entry level for everything has been lowered significantly.