Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Its idempotency is decent ...just that sometimes you have to be fairly deliberate in how you code things to achieve the desired degree of idempotency. Not everyone wants to sort out the logic necessary to create an always-valid when condition.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Yeah. Easier in all of the CM-oriented tooling (...and each has their own challenges to ensuring actual idempotency that the vendors tend to gloss over).
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Its idempotency is decent ...just that sometimes you have to be fairly deliberate in how you code things to achieve the desired degree of idempotency. Not everyone wants to sort out the logic necessary to create an always-valid
when
condition.True, sometimes it can be a bit problematic. But again, when compared to shell scripts, you still win with Ansible.
Yeah. Easier in all of the CM-oriented tooling (...and each has their own challenges to ensuring actual idempotency that the vendors tend to gloss over).