Jeff GeerlingJul 26, 2023

Michael DeHaan (original author of Ansible) thinks the time is ripe for the world to see a Rust-based Ansible alternative—with potentially 90-95% compatibility with exsiting playbooks—that can scale to 50-100k systems through a new message bus option.

https://laserllama.substack.com/p/a-new-it-automation-project-moving

A New IT Automation Project? Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit - An Invitation

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Show threadSearge Jul 26, 2023
@geerlingguy This means that there will be one application that will be installed globally in the system 🤔
In other words, to run playbooks in Ci/Cd, you will need to use Docker or install it individually on a runner.
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@Searge @geerlingguy what makes you think that? Because of the new bus system?
Jul 26, 2023 at 4:27amWeb
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@Mietz @geerlingguy just because Rust is compiled language.