Mike Oliver wrote: > Managing Debian with Ansible is pretty similar to managing > just about every other Linux distribution,
This is my experience as well. > with a few minor tweaks > (e.g. using the 'apt' module for managing packages instead of yum/dnf). For simple tasks one can use the package module [1], which is independent of the underlying package manager. > I've also used SaltStack. It's also very good. Anecdotally, I've found > it to be significantly faster than Ansible. I have had good results using ssh multiplexing (ControlMaster) to speed up Ansible, as it doesn't need to re-establish a new ssh session for each task. One slight annoyance is that Ansible can be quite noisy in the log files, if this is something you care about. Thomas [1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/package_module.html
