I have a few VMs and PMs around the house that I’d setup over time and I’d now like to rebuild some, not to mention just simplify the whole lot.

How the hell do I get from a working system to an equivalent ansible playbook without many (MANY) iterations of trial & error - and potentially destroying the running system??

Ducking around didn’t really show much so I’m either missing a concept / keyword, or, no-one does this.

Pointers?

TIA

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
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    2 days ago

    the first step is workout what you did, what did you install and where from. Then what config files got edited.

    Much like a playbook for a disaster recovery test

    Next is using some of the builtin modules like package and copy, make a very noddy playbook that will install stuff and copy up the config. if you have vms, you can use a test vm to see if the playbook works.

    If you’ve not played ansible than this might help 👉 https://www.jeffgeerling.com/project/ansible-101-youtube-series

    • Last@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

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