Oct 29 16:40:08 UTC 2019

This talk I had thought was going to be about using Ansible and
Puppet in concert, but apparently that is actually old hat. The
talk today was more about shitting on Puppet, and CFEngine in order
to make you feel better about using Ansible, and then once you were
into Ansible why Tower the paid product or AWX the upstream
alternative is a good solution.

Since we don't use anything today and Chef while cool I don't think
I can make th argument to pay for the nice to have visualizer.
AWX will fit that need quite nicely.

My big take away was that with AWX I can finally take away some
root access from developers who are constantly breaking things,
and can automate some of the tasks that people are not doing right
or at least not doing consistently right.

I took quite a bit of issue with the style of presentation including
small fonts, memes, and gifs.

It felt like an old 2007 style bro-down presentation and I would
like to see them do better.