Ansible: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
I have been a windows admin for many years. This tenure has much to do with local job opportunities and less so about a staunch love of one side. As a person who attempts to stay current in both worlds, I am currently dabbling with Configuration Management or Desired State Configuration (MS Speak). Because my place of employment doesn't have a decent sized GNU/Linux deployment I am really only able to go it alone in lab environments, but hey, I still enjoy it! CM is not new, the Chef and Puppet camps have been around for quite some time. I simply never started the journey with either product, thus I won't comment on them, other than to say it was probably because I was too lazy. :) Fast forward to today and there are several in the CM space. Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc. I did some basic research and landed on Ansible. There isn't a ton of thought that went into this conclusion, but as a long time windows admin with a disdain for agents... well you get my point. ...