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diff --git a/ansible.html.markdown b/ansible.html.markdown index ece6087e..421b5b59 100644 --- a/ansible.html.markdown +++ b/ansible.html.markdown @@ -570,20 +570,20 @@ Ansible have great integration with multiple operating systems (even Windows) an ### Cons - It is an agent-less tool - every agent consumes up to 16MB ram - in some environments, it may be noticable amount. - It is agent-less - you have to verify your environment consistency 'on-demand' - there is no built-in mechanism taht would warn you about some change automatically (this can be achieved with reasonable effort - but it must be known) - Official GUI Tool (web inferface) - Ansible Tower - is great, but it is expensive. There is no 'small enterprice' payment plan. Easy workaround with Rundeck or Jenkins is possible with reasonable workload. - +It is an agent-less tool - every agent consumes up to 16MB ram - in some environments, it may be noticable amount. +It is agent-less - you have to verify your environment consistency 'on-demand' - there is no built-in mechanism taht would warn you about some change automatically (this can be achieved with reasonable effort - but it must be known) +Official GUI Tool (web inferface) - Ansible Tower - is great, but it is expensive. There is no 'small enterprice' payment plan. Easy workaround with Rundeck or Jenkins is possible with reasonable workload. + ### Pros - It is an agent-less tools In most scenarios, it use ssh as a transport layer. - In some way you can use it as 'bash on steroids'. - It is very-very-very easy to start. If you are familiar with ssh concept - you already know ansible (ALMOST). My personal record is: 'I did show how to install and use ansible (for simple raspberry pi cluster management) and it tool me 30 seconds to deliver a working tool !!!)' - I do provide a training services - I'm able to teach a production-ready person - in 8 hours (1 training day)! It covers all needed to work aspects! No other tool can match this ease of use! - It executes when you do it - other tools (salt, puppet, chef - might execute in different scenario than you would expect) - Documentation is at the world-class standard! - The comunity (github, stackOverflow) would help you very fast. - Writing own modules and extension is fairly easy. +It is an agent-less tools In most scenarios, it use ssh as a transport layer. +In some way you can use it as 'bash on steroids'. +It is very-very-very easy to start. If you are familiar with ssh concept - you already know ansible (ALMOST). My personal record is: 'I did show how to install and use ansible (for simple raspberry pi cluster management) and it tool me 30 seconds to deliver a working tool !!!)' +I do provide a training services - I'm able to teach a production-ready person - in 8 hours (1 training day)! It covers all needed to work aspects! No other tool can match this ease of use! +It executes when you do it - other tools (salt, puppet, chef - might execute in different scenario than you would expect) +Documentation is at the world-class standard! +The comunity (github, stackOverflow) would help you very fast. +Writing own modules and extension is fairly easy. ### Neutral @@ -591,9 +591,9 @@ Migration Ansible<->Salt is failrly easy - so if you would need an event-driven ## Basics on ansible -Ansible uses ssh or paramiko as a transport layer. In a way you can imagine that you are using a ssh with API to perform your action. -In the 'low-level' way you can use it to execute remote command in more controlled way (still using ssh). -On the other hand - in advanced scope - you can use python anible code as a library to your own python scrips! This is awesome! (if you know what you are doing). It is a bit like fabric then. +Ansible uses ssh or paramiko as a transport layer. In a way you can imagine that you are using a ssh with API to perform your action. +In the 'low-level' way you can use it to execute remote command in more controlled way (still using ssh). +On the other hand - in advanced scope - you can use python anible code as a library to your own python scrips! This is awesome! (if you know what you are doing). It is a bit like fabric then. But ansible is way more! It provides an execution plans, an API, library, callbacks, not forget to mention - COMUNITY! and great support by developers! |