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• Re:copy /home/user Re:copy /home/user (Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Thursday December 03 2020, @07:37PM (1 child)

  by VLM (445) on Thursday December 03 2020, @07:37PM (#1083743)

  backing up system settings, including drivers, licenses,

  25 years ago that was a shell script, 10 years ago that was a puppet installation, now a days that's ansible's job. If a human is setting the ntp server address by hand, that's a mistake.

  I can go from freebsd boot image on the PXE server for physical or doing the vmware template thing on a virtual server, to a productive member of the cluster as a member of the active directory and everything in maybe 10, 15 minutes depending on the type of server.

  Its convenient that mysql server #7 (or whatever example) is configured exactly the same as server #2 when it comes to troubleshooting and stuff.

  Also joining a unix server to "big corporate" AD such that SSO fully works, is an afternoon's suffering if done completely by hand, but once 100% automated its like 90 seconds of the server time and it works.

  Ansible kinda grows on you after awhile. Its just a pile of python it don't care about nothing so setting it up is also like 5 minutes of quality time with "pip" the python installer on any OS. I use freebsd and it works fine. Its a "push" system where I have to tell it where and when to push, whereas the old puppet was a seemingly simpler pull system, but not an entirely reliable pull system so it was a PITA when one machine's puppet puller failed.

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• Re:copy /home/user (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 06 2020, @12:18AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 06 2020, @12:18AM (#1084450)

  so it was a PITA when one machine's puppet puller failed.

  That's what SHE said.

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