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 threadchristian mockJul 26, 2023
@geerlingguy What frustrates me the most with Ansible is not the speed, but YAML. A new configuration language would be nice, that could also clean up a lot of the confusion around features like role/include_role/import_role etc.
Show threadStarbeamrainbowlabsJul 26, 2023

@cm @geerlingguy same! YAML is just eugh

Toml would be nice, but honestly I'd even take plain old JSON over YAML any day

Show threadchristian mock
@sbrl @geerlingguy I think a "data structure" language is not enough; I'd rather have some kind of programming language, something where I can have real loops and if statements; doesn't need a lot of features, but those two are very clumsy in current ansible.
Jul 26, 2023 at 9:22amWeb
Show threadStarbeamrainbowlabsJul 26, 2023
@cm @geerlingguy I suppose there's always plain shell scripts / Bash, but a domain specific language would be nice
Show threadbamaeeJul 26, 2023
@sbrl @cm @geerlingguy my first thought here is https://cuelang.org/. I have seen previous attempts to map/wrap ansible in cuelang, so why not just start there?
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