Ansible for FreeBSD - use cases?

Valeri Galtsev galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu
Sat Oct 5 14:43:16 UTC 2019



> On Oct 5, 2019, at 9:15 AM, Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Is anyone using ansible on FreeBSD for anything useful in production? 
> 
> I understand the power of ansible is in its modules. If there is no
> module for your task, you are in a fix.
> 
> I've experimented with the pkgng module, it does install packages :-)
> Most modules are meant for Linux however.
> 
> What FreeBSD tasks do you automate with ansible, and with what modules?
> 
> I use net/rdist6 to update some configs on remote hosts, so I don't
> think I'll benefit much from file copying modules of ansible.
> 
> -- 
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> 2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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