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I have to say, the resurgence of this energy in the last whenever has been refreshing. Can't we all just crank our hogs?

You had me at “fuck Ansible”.

Honestly, fuck Ansible.

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

It's actually on par with 20-year-old tech. There's nothing it's doing that we weren't doing back then already in the enterprise space. And, in so many cases where Ansible's unable to respond well to changes to the system, it ends up not being on par with 20-yer-old tech.

Salt is better as it's one generation newer, aka last-gen. Puppet, salt, chef/cinc, all the same generation, and we get single source of truth and fast operation de

Current-gen is mgmtconfig, and from it we get instant/constant converging event-driven code. If you like ansible, you're gonna love sale or cinc. If you love salt or puppet, mgmtconfig will blow your mind clean out the back of your head.

100 servers? 5000? Ansible don't care

Sub-second convergence of thousands of servers. Files managed so hard you can't manually mod them as they revert immediately and it's an actual race to try and mod a file to use it, since it's hooked into inotify and friends.

James even put in a YAML-ish DSL for the crayola crew who haven't learned Go yet. :-P

Thanks for including an alternative you'd recommend!

I was going to respond that those are both wrappers to ssh, but thought I'd verify first, and TIL "Paramiko is a pure-Python [1] (3.6+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol [2]"

Except it isn't actually YAML you're writing, it's a jinja2 string template that parses to YAML because the expressions they came up with ended up not being sufficient.

Jist wait until you have to start fucking around with multiple incompatible versions of python for different targets.

The scandinavian country codes, as understood by yaml:

• se
• false
• dk

Protip: you can actually just write your ansible (or any yaml really( as JSON.

YAML is fine as a configuration language and ok data input language.

YAML is absolutely cursed as a programming language. As in Ansible has created a really shitty programming language inside of YAML. Should be burned with fire.

I kinda like YAML for simple configuration files, but the YAML spec is borderline insane.

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

And don't get me started with ansible, it never works the way I think it should and almost every playbook or role I write is a pain to get right. When it works, it's a really nice tool and I couldn't manage my homelab as efficiently without Ansible, but it frustrated the hell out of me way too often.

NixOS : no dudes, its not raw screeching madness, its great. Just great. So great. Please read these 17 guides that are outdated more every minute to get started. Also, dont read that guide. We don't do that anymore, but there is no way for me to explain why unless you already know.

Ive tried NixOS three times now, and it hasn't took. Has anyone written a sane guide to the current iteration yet?

After a suspicious-looking guide I nearly started with, and the NoxOS split drama, and having homemanager bork my login in a test setup, I wonder if next time I'll try GUIX.