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Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers? (lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, I have recently been seeing a boom in people using ansible for automating setting up vps's, services, ...

Is it worth it to learn ansible to do also automate the way I setup everything, or is a bash script good enough ( I know some bash scripting but ansible seems like it could be more worth the time to learn )?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it is a great way to document what you have done too. Especially with larger setups this can be quite time-intensive.

Then add that you may want to dynamically reconfigure your systems to interact with each other and then Ansibles template-rendering comes in really handy.

Finally, it is standardized - so other peopke can work with it too (relevant in work context).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This sounds amazing!

You have any good resources to recommend for learning ansible?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I recently began learning Ansible and this playlist was very helpful with learning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Sorry, but I fear not. Ansible has a good getting started out there, but I think you'll learn the most just using it.

Maybe a broad roadmap... Try to add systems. Test them via Ansible-Ping. Change some configs (add file, add line-in-file). Add handlers to react to changes by restarting services. Add host variables and customize behavior per host. Add templates...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Learn Linux TV has a good series as does Jeff Geerling both are free on YouTube.

I prefer the Learn Linux TV one as it goes through how to integrate git and different distros.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah +1 for LLTV