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I have encountered an unexpected Ansible failure today that turned out to be not a bug. Ansible apt module had failed to auto install the required python3-apt package - only on Debian Testing. Same playbook worked fine with Debian Stable. TASK [install some apt packages] ********************************************* [WARNING]: Updating cache and auto-installing missing … -
Liberating effect of Ansible
Maintaining two or three Linux machines is not that hard of a task. For many years I have thought it was not worth the effort to automate - regular backups and version-controlled configuration files seemed to be just enough. And then Ansible had blown my mind. History It all started with …