ansible

The big pro with Ansible and similar tools is that the scripts are actually very readable, with clear best practices.

IMO any tool that does procedural run-time configuration like chef/ansible/puppet will generally be inferior to an image based infra management solution.

I replaced it with Ansible when I was doing a 2 to 3 transition about a year ago.

I thought Ansible wasn't ported to Python 3 [0] and actually had a lot of weird bugs when I last tried to use it.

The advantage of ansible is that it is idempotent and the changes it makes to the system are the same ones you make manually or via bash scripts.

DevOps/Automation with Ansible and plain shell scripting.

AWS), and devops tools such as ansible and docker.

It had nothing to do with any form of AWS provisioning (manual ansible; a job for Monday), and it's a relatively recent machine (couple of months, t2.medium).

For many systems, you only need 2-3 servers for redundancy, but a lot can run on a single server (or very small cluster/set) I have to agree on ansible, systemd and go...

I think you will get more bang for the buck by using something like ansible or salt (I have only used ansible and love it and I have heard salt is comparable) You don't have a standard repeatable way to set up an environment now.

Hiring: * Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer: we love AWS and Ansible but more than that, we love the right tool for the job.

The scenario played out just as you said: I ended up single-handedly and poorly re-engineering something that already existed (they did have a working Ansible setup) for no visible gain.

The problem is that the Web SQL standard states "User agents must implement the SQL dialect supported by Sqlite 3.6.19." [0] which made agents rely on a outdated dependency and non standard (sqlite is not SQL ansible compatible) SQL.

If you come to a new place and "there's an error in here somewhere", the difference between layers of images held together with shell scripts and a Ansible/Puppet/Chef script is like night and day.

We are currently open to engineers with solid experience in Python, Ansible, and React.

Edit: If you need a standardised provisioning system, start out with Ansible.

Tools used include Ansible, Docker, and Python.