• @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    “Keep it simple” says the project that decided it would be great to program in YAML…

    I’ve tried using it to manage a few home servers and parameterizing anything was painful and boilerplate-ridden

    • Funwayguy
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      131 month ago

      Jist wait until you have to start fucking around with multiple incompatible versions of python for different targets.

        • @[email protected]
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          No. Because the python version of the host and the target server must loosely match up. Otherwise you get some cryptic error messages in some unexpected modules. Red Hat’s solution: just manage RHEL 9 targets from RHEL9 hosts and RHEL8 from RHEL8 hosts. There is no official way to align python versions across that major.

          • @FlexibleToast
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            21 month ago

            That’s not entirely true. You could use Ansible Navigator and Execution Environments.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        fucking around with multiple incompatible versions of python

        They’re being treated for PTSD in solaris-land.

        Yeah. I said solaris.

    • @tzrlk
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      81 month ago

      Except it isn’t actually YAML you’re writing, it’s a jinja2 string template that parses to YAML because the expressions they came up with ended up not being sufficient.

      • JackbyDev
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        61 month ago

        Mm, I love stacking weird formats. How many backslashes do I need for a regular expression to work right? 🥵

    • @themaninblackOP
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      11 month ago

      I seem to remember having the same trouble, maybe with hiding vars from logs?