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

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    No, not 30 minutes. For the first time I spent couple of weeks just for reading documentation and experiments. It was about 8 years ago IIRC. But since that time when I need something more complex than install a package or copy a file, I feel myself like a 30-minutes user because it does not work as I expect.

    • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Fair enough. I honestly didn’t mean this as an insult. I have seen the same type of review from people who join teams that I’m on when they get told about ansible.

      It certainly isn’t perfect. And there was a period of time about 5 years ago where a lot of change was happening at once.

      Thanks for sharing your opinion