u/larox-sn4k3s

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Introducing ansible to an existing setup

Hi there!

We're just getting started with ansible in our company, set up a test environment and played with some simple playbooks and looked into some best practice blogs. Next step would be using ansible for fresh systems.

But I am not sure how to get started to using ansible for our existing server setup. We have a very mixed setup with different OS versions (at least most of it is debian) and in some cases very different configurations for same types of servers. Best way would probably be to leave the old setup as it is and just start a rotation but thats not an option for every task. We need some of them also for the old setups but I am really afraid to miss something during testing and break some serious shit on that old stuff :')

Any tips or advise? Some first hand experience on how you handled something like that?

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u/larox-sn4k3s — 14 days ago