Bashible: An Ansible-inspired deployment/automation tool written in Bash DSL

Post by folmar » Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

rmrfrmrf wrote: post #36

dnautics wrote: post #29

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Is ansible really reusible? We had an ansible deploy for bringing up MySQL database. I stopped using the codebase and came back to it months later; and I spent two days trying to get it to work (it was an unholy combination of local and community yaml) and eventually just rewrote the damn thing as a bare sequence on literal MySQL (in 20 minutes I might add) and disabled verification - definitely worst practices - to…

Some of that could be due to versioning... Ansible's releases always have breaking changes, so you can get into trouble if your setup is vastly different from when the playbooks were created. I think this is part of the point of a dedicated control machine, but unfortunately the documentation (last I checked) seems to neglect the importance of it. Along the same lines, there are also .cfg files and roles that can liv…

Post by unixhero » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 6:11 AM UTC

unixhero wrote: post #48

kohtatsu wrote: post #46

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Y'all just have bias against the string system. Writing decent code in bash is just as possible as any other language. I stick to POSIX sh but same difference.

Why POSIX sh? Bash is everywhere. I once in my career had access to and needed jobs performed on a mainframe with AIX running. It had bash, it had ruby, it had day, it had fish shell. I couldn't and can't understand why people insist on asceticism (Korn shell, POSIX sh) when nicer options are available.

Post by fulafel » Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 9:31 AM UTC

klysm wrote: post #12

Portability is pretty important in the deployment/automation space and it's hard to beat bash in that capacity. It just sucks that bash sucks so much.