Oh don’t get me started on this. I just inherited a three figure sum of mixed CentOS 7 and 8 nodes haphazardly managed with spacewalk and ansible on top of VMware. At least it’s not on HPE crap this time. One reason I haven’t been posting much recently is working out how to approach the problem. Literally as we landed on a half decent solution they pulled this shit so it’s back to the drawing board.
And yes this is going in Amazon.
Edit: on a positive note there’s only one windows node in the entire cluster which is used to wrap some piece of shit COM in a service.
He, he. Count yourself lucky. I've had to try and deal with
network management based off of Ansible
Tower. Why Tower? Politics - because it's got paid support. Ha! After that, using Ansible to actually manage
servers would seem like bliss. (Ansible's a bit clunky, but the core philosophy that, unlike every other equivalent remote management product, it doesn't need any specialised Ansible components available or installed on the managed machines is, IMHO, the right one. Tower however, is a huge crock of shit.)
Didn't spacewalk get canned this year? [Checks] Yup, on May 31st.