Good end to the working year: unboxed, racked, and installed new DNS servers for deployment next year. Yay @ansible !
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Replying to @fanf
@fanf Are you finding @ansible okay? I was confused by the multiple file formats, variable sources, and the sports analogies. Also slow :(

Dec 23, 2014 Β· 6:17 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
@dsilverstone Yeah the inconsistent file formats are annoying. Appreciating its horizontal scalability as I get more servers.
Replying to @dsilverstone
@dsilverstone Learning some ways to work around its sequential slowness, which tend to make the playbooks less repetitive too.
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@dsilverstone Really liked how easy it was to get started when I first tried it 15 months ago :-)
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@fanf Sounds like enough of a recommendation for me to "stick with it" and try and get past the "ick" factor.
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@dsilverstone @ansible @fanf β€˜everything is a fucking YAML gotcha’
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@Habbie @ansible @fanf yaml I am fine with. It's the embedded jinja2 and odd variable scoping which confuses me
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