Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoAnsible casually administering hundreds or thousands of deviceslemmy.zipimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down19
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minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoQuick, do another one but with Terraform.
minus-squarebeeng@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-210 months agoTerraform talks to “clouds”, where as Ansible talks to devices. Whilst clouds do have many devices, I feel like Ansible has a greater ability to absorb likeness/distinctiveness (ships), over a greater scale than terraform.
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoTerraform isn’t limited to clouds. We use it for our onprem kit.
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoWait how? What do you use? I think I’ve seen a Terraform connector for Kubernetes but that’s about it
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoThere is esxi via vsphere, Hyper-V and Proxmox providers
minus-squarebluey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-210 months agoafaik, terraform does not allow you to manage the state of an OS. Think managing motd file or ensuring certain packages are installed. You might like to try out pulumi.
Quick, do another one but with Terraform.
Terraform talks to “clouds”, where as Ansible talks to devices. Whilst clouds do have many devices, I feel like Ansible has a greater ability to absorb likeness/distinctiveness (ships), over a greater scale than terraform.
Terraform isn’t limited to clouds. We use it for our onprem kit.
Wait how? What do you use? I think I’ve seen a Terraform connector for Kubernetes but that’s about it
There is esxi via vsphere, Hyper-V and Proxmox providers
Ah, thanks
afaik, terraform does not allow you to manage the state of an OS. Think managing motd file or ensuring certain packages are installed.
You might like to try out pulumi.