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--- public:tool:ansible [2022/10/11 05:01]
canvon Add links: Faster ansible playbook execution (redhat.com)
+++ public:tool:ansible [2022/10/11 06:04] (current)
canvon [Tool: ansible] Add section "Random stuff": Add Ansible FAQ, with suggestions about (turning off) cowsay and use of mkpasswd which (at least on Debian) comes with the whois package
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 [[https://docs.ansible.com/|ansible]] is an agent-less [[wp>configuration management]] [[.|tool]] with [[wp>Infrastructure_as_Code]] (IaC), but high-level with a declarative syntax that is aimed to ordinary people to understand (or at least get a glimpse of the idea).
+===== Random stuff =====
+  * https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/faq.html
+    * Perhaps the canonical place talking about ''cowsay'' and how to turn it off.
+    * At one point, it references ''mkpasswd'' -- this, on Debian, seems to be part of the ''whois'' package... O_o (For historical reasons.)\\ For me (canvon), at the time of writing (2022-10-10), seems quite as odd as "hundreds"(?) of Debian packages depending on library ''com_err'' built from the ''e2fsprogs'' sources. ...
 ===== Version requirements =====
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 ===== Installation =====
+  * [[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/installation_distros.html#installing-ansible-on-ubuntu|Official ansible documentation]] says to use a PPA (Personal Package Archive) for Ubuntu, and to use the same PPA with "fake"/translated release names for/from Debian, too.
   * On Debian 11 "''bullseye''", it should suffice to do ''apt install ansible'', maybe?

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