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 )?

  • simonmicroEnglish
    16•2 months ago

    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).

    • CronyAkatsukiOPEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      This sounds amazing!

      You have any good resources to recommend for learning ansible?

      • simonmicroEnglish
        4•2 months ago

        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…

      • slazer2auEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        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.