>
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Seth Vidal
> <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> There is a reason I want to move to a clientless configmgmt infrastructure.
> >
> > Could you explain what you mean by "clientless", please? It seems to
> > me that there always needs to be "something" running at the client
> > handling the data from the server, and therefore there needs to be
> > either a protocol or a data format the client and the server have in
> > common.
>
>
> http://ansible.cc
>
> It connects via ssh, pushes the code it needs to run over and executes it.
> You're right that it does require something running on the client: sshd
>
> From a software standpoint it assumes you have python installed on the
> clients, but that's only by default, you could write modules instead in
> plain shell or in C and it would work just fine.
>
> It counts on json for output.
ansibile is exactly what I've been looking at as a puppet replacement. If anyone has experience with both, I'd greatly appreciate hearing of their experiences. I don't relish the idea of making the conversion, but I really do get the impression life would be simpler with ansible once there. Or am I just falling for that greener grass on the other side of the fence?
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