Ansible Configuration Management
The cluster focuses on recommendations for using Ansible in server provisioning, deployment, and configuration tasks, often comparing it favorably to alternatives like Puppet, Chef, Nix, and pyinfra.
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Not you. If you can use ansible, for God's sake use ansible.
Folks generally use Ansible to launch and configure stuff; it is better suited for that kind of work.
What would be a better alternative to Ansible?
Ansible is probably what you're looking for.
Looks interesting. How does it compare to a tool like Ansible?
Why not just use Ansible for something like this?
Another Ansible convert here. Our entire team uses it, we love it. We have a semi-unique situation where we have to do a lot of finagling to access some machines, don't always have control over what sits in front of them, and frequently have to comply with outside regulations. I won't go into too much detail, but Ansible is flexible enough and expandable enough to fit our needs. We were able to have Ansible reading from our custom inventory system in under a day, have expanded it to ti
Just use Ansible, it's the best for installing and configuring things
Ansible gets the job done for me.I use it to bootstrap new servers (security, dependencies, etc) and deploy apps on them both on prem and vps. I have playbooks and roles for everything I ever needed.I don't really like it but it's a tool that you can bend to your needs and move along.
Makes sense! Have you considered Ansible?