Introduction
I use Ansible to manage all my infrastructure. It's about 50 bare metal servers that sit in my basement.
It works well, but I have a few issues:
- It can be very slow
- YAML can be very tricky to edit
- Sometimes, it takes ages to find how to do something that seems very simple
- The output is not helpful, it is either not detailed enough, or a huge flow of debug information
The third one is the biggest pain point. I spent sometimes hours trying to get how to use some plugin to do something simple.