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  • No need to look up how to do a clean install.

    The suggestion you don’t know that enterprise OSes have been doing clean installs and removals of a product and all its dependencies for 25 years as a critical test before issuing said packages suggests you’re working around too many problems without solving them.

    We did devops by pxe-based kickstart and then simple package updates before devops was even a word. It still does better than Ansible does now.












  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldProxmox or Docker?
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    1 month ago

    Neither. Both have fundamental issues toward confident updates and validation of software, speaking as someone who used to run the security response for an Enterprise OS vendor.

    I’m looking at CloudStack now, and it’s got some promise despite one odd glitch. I may try to stick with it .






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    I hate the kid-pidgin, but you make a really good point here:

    it’s good to stop for second and consider what one’s needs actually are.

    I mean, this is always excellent.

    Too often - you’ll see it in this comment thread - we go all out and show our own solution would fit OP’s case. And to them it must sound like “if you want a coke from the sev(7-eleven, like circle-k, Ted) you’re gonna need a van, a really big spring, a holocaust cloak and a wheelbarrow for sure.”

    Considering OP’s situation, skill level, fuckery tolerance and perseverance is key. Resilio could be all they need, here – Not elegant, not D.R.Y, not pretty, but its fuckery is low (good g.o.l.f number), but it could be fire-and-forget.

    Now, I’m not sure you’re not replying to a comment that says the same thing …just, not as well. Still good advice.


  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldBest Practice Ideas
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    2 months ago

    I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.

    Popular isn’t always better. See: Betamax/VHS, Blu-ray vs HDDVD, skype/MSSkype, everything vs Teams, everything vs Outlook, everything vs Azure. Ansible is accessible like DUPLO is accessible, man, and with the payola like Blu-ray got and the pressuring like what shot systemd into the frame, of course it would appeal to the C-suite.

    Throwing a few-thousand at Ansible/AAP and the jagged edges pop out – and we have a team of three that is dedicated to Nagios and AAP. And it’s never not glacially slow – orders of magnitude slower than absolutely everything.