Hi,
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 07:01:03PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > Please forgive my goofy questions. I am not really that well versed in CM > (Configuration Management) and this post is really going to show it. > > Because this will more than likely be tltr (too long to read), I'll try to > make it as fun as possible. Forgive if my humor is a bit strange. > > I noticed "Anible" isn't in the debian repos. Seems to be a Red Hat > scripting engine for creating automated installs. Just a fact correction. I think you are mistyping. Ansible is in the repo of Debian: $ apt show ansible Package: ansible Version: 2.2.1.0-2 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Harlan Lieberman-Berg <hlieber...@debian.org> Installed-Size: 12.8 MB Depends: python-crypto (>= 2.6), python-jinja2, python-paramiko, python-pkg-resources, python-yaml, python:any (<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~), python-httplib2, python-netaddr Recommends: python-kerberos, python-selinux, python-winrm (>= 0.1.1), python-xmltodict Suggests: cowsay, sshpass Homepage: https://www.ansible.com Tag: admin::automation, admin::configuring, admin::file-distribution, admin::package-management, implemented-in::python, interface::commandline, role::program, use::configuring, works-with::software:running Download-Size: 1,675 kB APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages Description: Configuration management, deployment, and task execution system Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically. ... > I heard about "Ansible" and how it is supposed to make it easier to write > installation scripts. Correct spelling ;-) I think use of ansible or any similar tool is not prerequisite of "development". It's a configuration management system. It's a nice and interesting tool I am thinking to learn but I don't use it yet. You need C, Shell, Perl, Python, git, ... skills first for development. Osamu
