DevOps Cardiff - Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible
- 2. About Me • Linux tinkerer since 1992 • Automating stuff since 1993 • “Done time” in small organisations through to Investment Banks • I’m lazy
- 3. Here I talked about not wanting to do the 'heavy lifting' myself, what I wanted to do was ...
- 4. ... have the computers do it for me. In other words, automate stuff.
- 5. (no, this is all just my opinion)
- 10. Points of note • Chef is big and ugly • Puppet is a bit better • Both have complexity you don’t need
- 11. http://www.ansible.com/get-started “I wrote Ansible because none of the existing tools fit my brain. I wanted a tool that I could not use for 6 months, come back later, and still remember how it worked.” ! Michael DeHaan! Ansible project founder
- 12. Quote from a wise man
- 13. The Times newspaper, on a Saturday, has an article titled "What I've learnt". The previous quote was from an interview with Matt LeBlanc
- 14. https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/about/good-design Good design is as little design as possible! Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity
- 15. At the DevOps Cardiff meet I had an anecdote that preceded the next slide. I've put this extra slide in before uploading the presentation with that short anecdote. ! A while back a mate with a startup had asked me about CM software, and if he should use Chef. "NO!" came my emphatic answer. "Take a look at Ansible". A few days past, then I got a text message from him. ! Autocorrect on iPhones? You know how ducking annoying that shiv can be? Well, sometimes it actually gets things right...
- 17. Mark Phillips [email protected] @vntxuk Blog: probably.co.uk Github repo used to build the demos: https://github.com/phips/c6vagrant/tree/pVcVa