The Answer is Ansible. What Was The Question?
Mar 25, 2022

The Answer is Ansible. What Was The Question?

I've been searching for this answer for the last 7 years (since starting MNX Solutions). I needed a configuration management tool, with ad-hoc command support, and deployment capabilities. So far, my journey has taken me through:

But that wasn't all I needed. I also needed a solution that:

  • Was easy to deploy,
  • Had minimal software dependencies[1] on the agent-side
  • Worked over SSH, and re-used our passworded SSH keys
  • Didn't have an agent listening and sucking up all the RAM occasionally (dang puppet)
  • Didn't have another listening port

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