what don't you need to update

[Ryan Petris]

In my many years of development and linux server management experience I've never actually used ansible... the one interaction I did have with it was managing OpenShift clusters and it was a pain. That's probably more of OpenShift's fault though rather than Ansible.

As for setting up servers, I just use NixOS. No real need for Ansible when I can just chuck a NixOS config at it and have everything setup. It might come in handy for running a command across everything but I haven't bothered with it up to this point.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 1:46 PM, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Okay -- check this out ...
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/automation/learning-ansible-tutorial
> 
> You can install the free version of Ansible on all Linux Platforms.
> 
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/installation_distros.html
> 
> Their install guide will also help you get the basics sorted out.
> 
> At work, we manage thousands of servers with Ansible -- At home, my entire homelab configuration is handled by Ansible.  I can spin up a new RedHat VM and have it ready for "production" in about 5 minutes -- its amazing.
> 
> --
> Thanks,
> Alex.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 4:51 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, please! 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 11:20 AM Snyder, Alexander J <alexander at snyderfamily.co> wrote:
>>> This isn't idiocy, this is the infancy of automation! What if you could get Ann entirely new PC and then you could run "a thing" on it to completely provision and configure all your settings and files just how you want it?!?
>>> 
>>> This thing already exists, it's free, and easy to learn. 
>>> 
>>> Welcome to the wonderful and exciting world of ANSIBLE!
>>> 
>>> It's called "Configuration Management", and in the world of ANSIBLE, you write playbooks and those playbook execute tasks.
>>> 
>>> If you're interested to know more, let me know. Aside from being a big fan of Ansible, it's also literally my day job.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alexander
>>> 
>>> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 07:34 Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>> what I mean by easier is if I have to reinstall the OS/get a new computer it is easier to write it into a text file, save it in gmail as a draft, and then open up that draft if I need it. I have a LOT of drafts like this. Commands, paragraphs that I have to repeat, stuff like that. You might think I'm an idiot but let my idiocy inspire you!
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:26 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> as for doing this graphically I think it is easier to copy-n-paste into a terminal:
>>>>> sudo apt-mark hold package1 package2 package3
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:15 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Look at what I just discovered: The apt-mark hold <package> command is used to prevent a specific package from being upgraded on Debian-based systems.
>>>>>> I hated waiting for firefox to update! (I don't use ff) Could we start a list of other big packages that don't need to be updated?
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>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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