Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers?
Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers?
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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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).
This sounds amazing!
You have any good resources to recommend for learning ansible?
I recently began learning Ansible and this playlist was very helpful with learning.
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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...
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.
Yeah +1 for LLTV