Technus, 1 year ago

I decided I wanted nothing to do with Ansible when I was half an hour into reading the website and I still didn’t have a fucking clue what it is or exactly what it does.

To this day, I couldn’t really tell you. It seems to be basically a framework for automatically SSH’ing into machines and running shell scripts on them which doesn’t sound robust in the slightest. It’s like they took thirty years of sysadmins’ discarded spit-and-duck-tape solutions and bundled them into a “framework”.

I dunno how the fuck you’re supposed to manage cloud infrastructure at scale with that.