What are you using to deploy your networks? Terraform?
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Allen Tyson
04/08/2023, 1:10 PM
Thanks Jamie. I'm debating between Ansible and Terraform. What do you think?
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Jamie Jonas
04/08/2023, 1:13 PM
I've no real experience on ansible.and my understanding of it is it's more aligned to configuration management then platform deployment. From my limited knowledge of ansible the 2 can and often are used together.
Terraform however I have good knowledge of. I'd go that route over ARM/Cloud formation due to its agnostic capability (can deploy to anything there's a provider for).
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Allen Tyson
04/08/2023, 4:28 PM
Awesome, thanks
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neil wylie
04/12/2023, 4:31 PM
@Allen Tyson we use the two together a bunch. I tend to think of ansible as the duct-tape of automation, but it generally has a broader appeal with networking devices since it 'logs in' and doesnt need an API/provider