alt Hacker NewsYeah except it doesn't really work. It constantly breaks underneath you. The whole system has to be managed, e.g NixOS, or else it's a house of cards.
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embedding-shape • today at 10:51 AM
> Yeah except it doesn't really work
It does "work", you can download ansible today and use it, it does what it says. Is it the greatest solution for all use cases in infrastructure? Of course not, nothing is. Do people misuse it? Of course too, we're all human.
Regardless of what tooling you use, we're all building houses of cards, and depending on the situation, try to hold down those cards as well as we can, balancing a ton of other needs and requirements.
I'm also not personally a fan of Ansible, but to claim it doesn't really work is quite breathtaking given the size of the installed base.