* John W. Himpel [02/05/2024 17:06] :
But I
prefer using ansible to maintain my server environment. It becomes
permanent documentation (in case I am no longer available) and it
becomes repeatable by only modifying the "environment files" if a
server requires a rebuild.
Over the years, this has become the primary reason I use Ansible.
It functions as both code and documentation, making it impossible
to change one without changing the other.
I am looking for the opinion and experience of the community in
deciding whether or not we should document both types of procedures.
I suspect that our target audience are people who straddle the line
between maintaining a handful of servers and having a whole cluster
of them. This would suggest that it would be useful to have all three
documentation types (GUI, CLI, automated).
Like others, I think writing the configuration and deploying the
configuration are two seperate steps. I also think that creating an
Ansible playbook is trivial to do once you've actually written the
CLI steps and that showing this process is more useful than publishing
a playbook.
Emmanuel