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Jeff Geerling Jul 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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christian mock Jul 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.

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Mackaj Jul 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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christian mock Jul 26, 2023

@mackaj @geerlingguy re "wouldn't be ansible" -- I'm pretty sure one of the other tools in that space (puppet) completely redid their DSL with a major release...

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Mackaj Jul 26, 2023

@cm

I hate puppet with a passion. Pulling stunts like that is just one reason. Best not to repeat other people's mistakes.

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christian mock

@mackaj @geerlingguy yes, some upgrade where you had to upgrade client + server at the same time because of a breaking change brought me from puppet to ansible.

but I think one could keep the old config format and add a new one. integration of legacy roles etc into new code could be a problem, but plugins probably could keep their API.