[lug] CM for a small sysadmin.

[Quentin Hartman]

Eh, I don't agree that CMs are inherently idempotent. They try to be, but
it's trivial to break that. That's arguably an indication that you're doing
something wrong, but I think having that be a goal if you don't actually
need it makes things needlessly complex.

And really, unless you are running your CM as a daemon where it's
constantly re-applying your config, does it matter if it's idempotent or
not? I say no. If you're using the CM as a deploy tool and not "CI for
infrastructure", I don't think that matters really. Idempotency is not
inherently a virtue.



On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Dan Ferris <dan at usrsbin.com> wrote:

> Maybe, except most shell scripts aren't idempotent and a CM system is.
>
> Ansible playbooks are probably just as much effort as a shell script.
>
> On 10/28/2015 01:21 PM, Rob Nagler wrote:
> > Shell scripts are by far easier than any CM, especially if you couple
> > them with Docker to deploy your servers.
> >
> > Rob
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