alt for @Pondering classic art to parody for the #sudomastery cover. Preferably something where I can get both Beastie and Tux in.
I doubt I can top the #pamMastery cover, but gonna try.
For the record: I'm saving Hieronymous Bosch for "Ansible for Heterogenous/Legacy/Artisan Networks"
peter hessler @openbsd@mwlucas have you been spying on me at $work?
it's been a rough ride...
@phessler Truly, it's a needed book.
Corralling legacy systems and trying to bring them into central management is MUCH harder than deploying an all-new glorious DevOops cloud with unicorn pixie dust.
@mwlucas I've done this twice now. first time, I ended up inventing my own config management system; since the only other alternative at the time was cfengine.
For heterogenous hosts, the place to start is config files and service management. Ansible is really good at those. You can have a single, say, sshd_config with ifdefs for different OSs and versions, so everything remains consistent across all hosts.
@mwlucas here, I have almost everything in host_vars and group_vars files. it is quite glorious. 
there are lots of subtleties with cumulus linux, and this handles pretty much all of them. no thanks to cumulus themselves, because they dont *actually* have ansible playbooks like their liepapers claim. 