digcat... sorry about not replying yesterday... very busy day
digcat
jhi bmejia no stress
missed you have been busy
bmejias
and then the train workers went on unplanned strike, so we needed to rush to the train station to take the first train available.
digcat
ahh nice! just what you need
morning all
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EmlynC
@marsbard we use Ansible a lot internally for deployment of our website etc and I have experience with writing and maintaining Puppet playbooks. I think using *any* of the orchestration management tools is going to introduce a threshold. The installation process for Puppet or Ansible are fairly straightforward, but both then require command-line invocation to get started and while there are GUI tools these tend to
be commercial. There may be a question of languages, Puppet is Ruby and Ansible is Python, Python is closer to C-like languages which may be easier for your Java developer. Saying that, you write Ansible playbooks in YAML so may languages don't matter so much.
In brief, I'd argue that switching to Ansible isn't going to make it any easier for newbies.
marsbard
thanks EmlynC, was starting to feel that way myself actually :-)
EmlynC
I _am_ however glad that you've chosen to make the orchestration tool a first class issue!
Puppet is a MILLION times better than maven, IMHO.
... for orchestration that is.
marsbard
yes
and better too than shell scripts which was how I was doing alfresco installs previously