Play(book) with Ansible
Recently I was in a meeting with a customer discussing the software selection for an automation product. The usual suspects were there: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, HP Server Automation/Operations Orchestrator.
A few months ago I tried Puppet in my spare time and just setting it up took a considerable amount of time. Then I tried Ansible. And started right away having fun writing playbooks: in no time I put together some useful books to prepare an entire infrastructure without learning a new language! Having declarative, YAML-based, files is a good choice for me since they can also double as documentation.
Surely Puppet and Chef are good solutions but for a quick start I was really impressed by Ansible and I definitely suggest it (at 3yo is relatively new compared to the others).
For example add some Perl modules and checkout the app from its repo:
- name: CPANM prerequisites
cpanm: name={{ item }}
with_items:
- Term::ReadLine::Perl
- Term::ReadKey
- YAML
- DBD::mysql
- DateTime
- Mojo::mysql
- EV
- IO::Socket::Socks
- IO::Socket::SSL
- Net::DNS::Native
- Data::Dumper
- CGI
- Socket
- Switch
- Config::Abstract::Ini
- List::Util
- MIME::Lite
environment:
http_proxy: http_proxy
https_proxy: https_proxy
PERLBREW_ROOT: perlbrew_root
tags: [ cpan_prerequisistes ]
- name: Copy the code from repository
git: repo={{ repository }} dest={{ app_home }} force=yes
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
