<tt><font size=2>> From: Seth Vidal <skvidal@fedoraproject.org></font></tt>
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> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Miloslav Trmač wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Seth Vidal <br>
> <skvidal@fedoraproject.org> wrote:<br>
> >> There is a reason I want to move to a clientless configmgmt
infrastructure.<br>
> ><br>
> > Could you explain what you mean by "clientless", please?
It seems to<br>
> > me that there always needs to be "something" running
at the client<br>
> > handling the data from the server, and therefore there needs
to be<br>
> > either a protocol or a data format the client and the server
have in<br>
> > common.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> </font></tt><a href=http://ansible.cc/><tt><font size=2>http://ansible.cc</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>
> <br>
> It connects via ssh, pushes the code it needs to run over and executes
it. <br>
> You're right that it does require something running on the client:
sshd<br>
> <br>
> From a software standpoint it assumes you have python installed on
the <br>
> clients, but that's only by default, you could write modules instead
in <br>
> plain shell or in C and it would work just fine.<br>
> <br>
> It counts on json for output.<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">ansibile is exactly what I've been looking
at as a puppet replacement. If anyone has experience with both, I'd
greatly appreciate hearing of their experiences. I don't relish the
idea of making the conversion, but I really do get the impression life
would be simpler with ansible once there. Or am I just falling for
that greener grass on the other side of the fence?</font>
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--<br>
John Florian</font>
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