Ansible, Simplicity, and the Zen of Python
summary
Claim: Ansible is simple because it uses a push model via SSH with no agents and a plain inventory file, is written in Python, and ships modules like apt module calls OS libraries and unarchive uses zipfile from the stdlib. Playbooks are idempotent, use explicit register and failed_when for checks, and support wait-for primitives, but role dependencies prove brittle in practice. The concrete artifacts are working playbooks and modules, not abstract promises.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Ansible, Simplicity, and the Zen of Python
- 1:35Puppet
- 2:07Bash
- 4:25What is Ansible?
- 5:09ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
- 5:27Ansible is simple
- 6:11Example playbook
- 7:16Python is simple
- 9:04Occam's Razor
- 11:58Python is uncomplicated
- 15:48GALAXY
- 18:15Explicit module result
- 19:34Magic variable?
- 20:30Ansible and Python
- 21:02Ansible vision
