3 Introduction | Group Policy on Linux
dmulder.github.io

This book introduces the user to opensource tools for managing Linux clients via Group Policy.

I just though I’d share

Edit: I’m not sure if this actually works. All else fails fall back to Ansible

  • corsicanguppy
    1·
    8 months ago

    All else fails fall back to Ansible

    Fucking hell. THAT far back?

    We were doing everything Ansible does for the 95% case in 2002. Like, for 95% of use-cases, Ansible is absolutely no better than a conglomeration of tools from 2002. Definitely no reason to pay licensing.

    Bonus: since it’s version-agnostic (another win over Ansible if you’ve ever managed Tower/AAP/whatever next week) I’m still using that paradigm today because it works SO well. It’s losing to Cinc or mgmtConfig but only because those are 1 and 2 generations newer than Ansible and do offer distinguishing features.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Ansible is foss, free of cost and requires almost no additional overhead or hardware.

      It isn’t the best sometimes but if you have a bunch of machines to manage it works great. (Assuming they aren’t behind a NAT)

      • corsicanguppyEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Ansible is foss, free of cost and requires almost no additional overhead or hardware.

        Um, why are you stressing foss ? I only ask because the 2002 kit was

        • cron
        • make
        • awk
        • at
        • rpm

        ‘It’s foss’ isn’t really a selling point, here, since ansible is still outmatched by everything else available – including that gaggle of tools from 22 years ago.

        … which was foss.

        The only thing Ansible has going for it is momentum; and cult-people who haven’t seen Chef or even that aforementioned tool-bag. Heaven forbid someone sees MgmtConfig converging 1000 machines in under a second immediately after a file is changed on one (ergo no playbook run taking 10 minutes). They’d be crying every day afterward that they were still stuck on worse-than-2002-technology Ansible. At 2002, Ansible pre-dates GOOGLE MAPS for technology; and facebook; and the iPhone. Ansible is the MapQuest Printout of technology.

        The new tech is so reactive, it can revert a file back to conformity immediately after it’s saved; before it can be reopened!

        AND IT’S STILL OPEN SOURCE. Of course. Because that’s a no-brainer.