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Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible

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Post by cbrookins » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 1:05 AM UTC

Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible
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Re: Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible

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Post by MuffinFlavored » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 1:37 AM UTC

What do people use Ansible for that can't be done with Terraform and vice-versa?

Re: Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible

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Post by tptacek » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 1:40 AM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

What do people use Ansible for that can't be done with Terraform and vice-versa?

Terraform is not great at provisioning "inside" of Unix servers, and Ansible is not great at provisioning cloud resources.

Re: Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible

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Post by cosmotic » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 1:48 AM UTC

What does modern mean in this context?

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Post by jamesmishra » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 1:51 AM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

What do people use Ansible for that can't be done with Terraform and vice-versa?

Ansible comes with an ecosystem of collections and playbooks to help configure software. A lot of this configuration is hard to describe in Terraform's declarative way and the Terraform ecosystem generally avoids it.

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Post by hidden_sheepman » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 1:56 AM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

What do people use Ansible for that can't be done with Terraform and vice-versa?

Custom complex workflows

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:11 AM UTC

cosmotic wrote: post #4

What does modern mean in this context?

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Post by watsonkr » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:14 AM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

What do people use Ansible for that can't be done with Terraform and vice-versa?

I use both! Terraform builds the cloud resources and then hands it off to ansible for final provisioning.

Re: Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible

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Post by cpitman » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:14 AM UTC

cosmotic wrote: post #4

What does modern mean in this context?

Reading through their website (https://ansible-semaphore.com/), it seems like it comes down to responsive UI with material design, and being written in Go.

It's not clear what this offers over Ansible AWX (https://github.com/ansible/awx), which is the traditional Ansible UI.

Re: Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible

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Post by cpitman » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

What do people use Ansible for that can't be done with Terraform and vice-versa?

One more use case is that you sometime need to do something, not just specify idempotent configuration. For example, you might have a nightly task to run a script on multiple servers that dumps a data file, then copy those files to a central server.

Ansible can easily be used for both "I need to configure a thing" and also for "I need to script activity".