[lug] CM for a small sysadmin.

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/28/2015 01:21 PM, Quentin Hartman wrote:
> Yeah, I would go for something very light for that small of a deployment.
> Ansible looks interesting, but I haven't used it. My concern with it (and this
> may be unfounded) is that like what I found in Puppet, you have to become an
> expert in the tool before you can do much beyond what it does out of the box
> because of all the boilerplate / structure it forces. Chef and the like are
> total overkill, but I like that you have more freedom to do just do what you
> need to do when and where you need to do it without so much ceremony. You
> might do chef-solo? You get most of chef without any of the infrastructure. If
> you know ruby already it's pretty easy to get going.

I've found ansible to be pretty low overhead and easy to get started with.  It
is slow, but that's probably not an issue in this case.


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