Ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com. (by ansible)
GNU Stow
GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches (by aspiers)
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| Ansible | GNU Stow | |
|---|---|---|
| 390 | 4 | |
| 61,068 | 540 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 9.8 | 9.2 | |
| 6 days ago | 17 days ago | |
| Python | Perl | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Ansible
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ansible.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.
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Grant Kubernetes Pods Access to AWS Services Using OpenID Connect
Ansible v2.16
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Set up an Automation script with Ansible
Ansible is a tool used to help manage software automation processes, configuration management across machines, deployment as well as remote execution of commands and scripts. In sports, Ansible operates as the coach of your team by providing strategies (playbooks), and actions, and ensuring the smooth execution of tasks across your infrastructure, just like a coach guides and directs players (Servers)during a game.
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Interesting Uses of Ansible's ternary filter
They support for-if from python, too: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#loop-f... but I haven't tried the "recursive" keyword to know if ansible supports that. I say "ansible supports that" because they don't just drop jinja2 into ansible and call it a draw, they have a bunch of custom execution integrations: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.3/lib/ansible/...
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck
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A Journey to Find an Ultimate Development Environment
In this article's context, it is simply a tool that provides a declarative way to automate your machine/OS to configure the development machine as you want (install package, modify the configuration, etc). Examples of these tools are Ansible, Puppet, etc.
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The Director of "Toy Story" Also Drew the BSD Daemon Logo
Now we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)
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Running stateful workloads on Kubernetes with Rook Ceph
In the lab to follow, we'll quickly provision a 3-node kubeadm cluster (1 master, 2 workers) on the cloud provider of your choice using an automation stack comprised of OpenTofu and Ansible, then deploy Rook Ceph using the official Helm charts and confirm that we are now able to successfully create CSI volume snapshots from PVCs by reusing the MinIO example from our last article.
- Looking for a way to remote in to K's of raspberry pi's...
- ansible builder collections path
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The Bullhorn #119 (Ansible Newsletter)
Ansible-Core ↗
GNU Stow
Posts with mentions or reviews of GNU Stow.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-12.
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GNU Stow is a very useful Perl program but it has some minor issues that need to be fixed
I use GNU Stow to symlink many shell and configuration files from a repository. It works so well and there are many webpages out there from people telling you how it's the best way to manage dotfiles.
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Is it a good idea to backup my filesystem on github?
Gnu Stow
- Give Your Dotfiles a Home with GNU Stow
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
Too bad that's broken for directory names: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/33
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Ansible and GNU Stow you can also consider the following projects:
Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
pyinfra - pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python. It’s fast and scales from one server to thousands. Great for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.
rcm - rc file (dotfile) management
cloudinit - Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
homesick - Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.