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 threadMackajJul 26, 2023

@cm

Wouldn't be Ansible in that case, but something else. You'd be starting out from scratch. Nah.

Also, not everyone dislikes YAML 😉

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Show threadJeff Geerling
@mackaj YAML is the best worst config language readable by humans out there ;)
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Show threadMackajJul 26, 2023

@geerlingguy

Have you ever looked at SaltStack? Last time for me was about 7 years ago. They didn't have loops in their YAML so to iterate over the same lines you had to wrap your YAML in Jinja loops 🤢

I walked away and didn't look back.