My story: part two

Before we finish this part of the chapter, I would like to finish the story of my journey. As mentioned earlier in the chapter, I moved from my collection of scripts and runbooks to Puppet, which was great until my requirements moved away from managing just server configuration and maintaining the servers’ state.

I needed to start managing infrastructure in public clouds. This requirement quickly started to frustrate me when using Puppet. At the time, Puppet’s coverage of the APIs I needed to use for my infrastructure needed to be improved. I am assured it is a lot better now, but also, I found myself having to build too much logic into my manifests about the order in which each task was executed.

It was around this time, which was December 2014, that I decided to look at Ansible. I know the date because I wrote a blog post entitled First Steps With Ansible; I don’t think I have looked back since. I have since introduced several of my work...