[PaywallBuster]

I think you're exagerating.

I use Ansible to provision dev environments on each PR, it works fine, every time a deployment occurs Ansible will deploy if required, otherwise proceeded with the deployment.

Destroying the environment is done separate, triggered by a webhook once the PR is closed.

[scoot_718]

If you're just provisioning software on an individual server, then sure. I agree. It kinda works okay.

What I'm talking about is using the cloud modules to spin up servers, and god help you, entire VPC set ups.

[PaywallBuster]

Each PR will provision a new server and then configure/deploy.

[scoot_718]

So wait, you make a playbook per individual server instance? Why?

[zufallsheld]

He didn't say that. He presumably uses one playbook that creates vms and provisions the software for every PR. With ansible this can be idempotent and creating vms is by default idempotent.