On 29/01/16 12:20, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 29 January 2016 at 10:56, Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
http://www.ansible.com/ is pretty simple to grasp, uses no agents, pushes over SSH, and has YAML config files. Useful skill too, much in demand.
Thanks, Ansible looks useful for me, although I'm not sure it'll be enough to help out my colleague who really wants a GUI. I'll certainly look at it though, as there are plenty of tasks I carry out where this type of automation would help.
Cool.
Ansible Tower is a GUI, and it is free for up to 10 nodes, so there's a possibility there. In truth, all one needs is a decent editor to write the YAML files and it virtually drives itself. Even GUI fans can drive a console now and again!
Also, you might want to check out Semaphore, but I think it seems that an alternative GUI to Tower may be a while off. A few seem to be in the pipeline, but not yet mature. Semaphore costs, but it has a free option. https://semaphoreci.com/
Cheers, Laurie.