Mon: Jul 20, 2020

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation. Last year I got tired of repeatable tasks at work and introduced Ansible, which the whole team has taken to and has saved us an incredible amount of time and effort. Lately I've been running up against limits in the playbooks so I started creating what I call "Ansible-bash-hybrid scripts" which are bash scripts that call Ansible playbooks and do other things. I know I read this article last year and it's obvious in hindsight that it inspired those hybrid scripts, each one of the steps in the script is being gradually automated...


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