On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Seth Vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
One of the big questions to answer is distribution. I can see good
arguments on the one hand distributing formulas via RPM and on the
other having an official Git repository for them.
Yep. I am torn here too. rpms get us a lot, but are also inflexable in
other ways. :)
Let me make an argument against rpms here.
Ansible doesn't require anything on the local system to run a playbook.
That's one of its virtues.
For a user if we just use a git repo then the user doesn't have to
modify their system in order to use the tools to change their
system.
There is a certain amount of elegance in that not to mention just
not being annoying.
Well, if we're allowing this to be for end-users as opposed to just
managed infrastructure, it would require *something* to be on the local
end-user's system, depending on how the playbook is written. (For example,
if it uses the 'command' or 'shell' features) That can be mitigated by
having requirements on the playbooks that we accept into this repository,
of course.
1. you don't want to use command/shell modules much - mainly b/c they are
not idempotent and get run every time barring the presence of the
creates=option
2. you are correct that if you are using something not commonly on
systems in a command or shell module you're in trouble. However, you can
pull those in an early step in the playbook w/o controversy. Playbooks
don't execute in random order. They are in a strict, obvious order.
does that help?
-sv
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