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by arca_vorago 4086 days ago
Ansible is really great, but for reasons some people might not think about.

Ansible has support for powershell, which is essentially now the backend of windows. (your new servers are gui-less right?) Powershell is also not a bad language at all, and while for those of us that are bash/zsh/fish natives, it will take some getting used to, I find it a really powerfull and more intuitive way to interact with windows, even if it is very overly majorly verbose-verbose.

Being able to work in my very mixed environment (Solaris/OSX/Linux/Doze, etc) via a central ansible server group is awesome.
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brunoqc 4086 days ago
Is it a problem for you that it requires PowerShell 3.0?

I wish I could use ansible with all those XP workstation a work.

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arca_vorago 4085 days ago
No it hasn't been a problem so far, just an update that gets pushed via the normal pre-ansible methods and requires a restart. Regarding XP... unless it's embedded get that shit outa there!
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brunoqc 4085 days ago
> Regarding XP... unless it's embedded get that shit outa there!

We're also stuck with Windows Server 2003 for now :(

I grew up thinking that the technology move so fast...

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