Excellent. Happy rabbits!
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Tiglath <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All right! > > Thank you, Michael. The support from this group gave me the confidence > to decide to do a major project in Ansible, though I am fairly new to it. > The fact the the lerning curve isn't steep at all as well, relatively, > counts for much too. > > So here is the plan. I will try to do everything in Ansible, and resort > to wrappers/scripts only if the Ansible way is at clear disadvantage with > alternatives. > > Rabbits are safe. > > > > On Thursday, September 4, 2014 6:39:36 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote: > >> Ansible allows for good prompting with vars_prompt, Ansible Tower (really >> nice variable prompting there too), or just passing variables with "-e" to >> the ansible-playbook command line. >> >> The pause module in ansible can also wait for human configuration, and >> vars_prompt can also ask questions midstream. >> >> Please don't skin the rabbits, they are cute and fluffy and want to >> hugged and petted and maybe called George. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Tiglath <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am developing an application deployment program using Ansible. >>> >>> The task entails: >>> >>> Prompt for release number. >>> Prompt for environment: QA or prod. >>> Prompt for the target server. >>> >>> Copy data and configure it >>> >>> Prompt if app needs to be stopped and stop it if needed. >>> >>> Pause for admin to make links to files only they are allowed to do. >>> >>> Finalize configuration and start app. >>> >>> I want to use Ansible as much as possible, but I also want to use the >>> best tool for each job. So first I thought that at the end will have a >>> mixture of ansible and python and bash scripts. >>> >>> Can Ansible perform all of the steps above well enough to use only >>> Ansible, or is it usually a mix anyway? >>> >>> Initially I thought that perhaps I could get the user data with a script >>> and then pass target release and env to ansible as variables. >>> >>> Many ways to skin that rabbit but I hope to benefit from the experience >>> of sombody's similar effort, if any. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/ansible-project/814b7f2b-ae1f-4e09-b602- >>> c61506c6397f%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/814b7f2b-ae1f-4e09-b602-c61506c6397f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/08599479-e328-4899-a1c2-3230592c201e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/08599479-e328-4899-a1c2-3230592c201e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgzy7qDrgLbG6driLLhEoATQ2x-oPFvbF4Q0Q7VxeRTOZQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
