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TL;DR You can manage Linux Machines with group policy (dmulder.github.io)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just though I'd share

Edit: I'm not sure if this actually works. All else fails fall back to Ansible

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ansible is foss, free of cost and requires almost no additional overhead or hardware.

Um, why are you stressing foss ? I only ask because the 2002 kit was

cron
make
awk
at
rpm

'It's foss' isn't really a selling point, here, since ansible is still outmatched by everything else available -- including that gaggle of tools from 22 years ago.

... which was foss.

The only thing Ansible has going for it is momentum; and cult-people who haven't seen Chef or even that aforementioned tool-bag. Heaven forbid someone sees MgmtConfig converging 1000 machines in under a second immediately after a file is changed on one (ergo no playbook run taking 10 minutes). They'd be crying every day afterward that they were still stuck on worse-than-2002-technology Ansible. At 2002, Ansible pre-dates GOOGLE MAPS for technology; and facebook; and the iPhone. Ansible is the MapQuest Printout of technology.

The new tech is so reactive, it can revert a file back to conformity immediately after it's saved; before it can be reopened!

AND IT'S STILL OPEN SOURCE. Of course. Because that's a no-brainer.