10000 Lines of Ansible Playbook: The Infrastructure-as-Code Infomercial

Description

A satirical infomercial-style meme promoting '10000 lines of ansible playbook' as a solution for managing too many servers. The image features the Ansible logo (a large grey 'A') overlaid on YAML code snippets showing tasks like 'Ensure users exist on managed machines' and 'Add Hashicorp GPG key' with ansible.builtin modules. Text reads: 'have too many servers?', 'just sshing getting too slow?', 'try 10000 lines of ansible playbook', '10000 lines of ansible playbook: gets everything managed', 'write it all yourself', 'in yaml'. A table shows 'Language: YAML, Files: 353, Lines: 10952'. The bottom punchline: 'you will certainly not regret 10000 lines of ansible playbook'. The whole presentation mimics a late-night TV product advertisement format applied to infrastructure automation

Common Tags

Ansible AnsiblePlaybooks Yaml ConfigurationManagement Automation InfrastructureAsCodeTools Devops DevOpsPainPoints Ssh CodeComplexity

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick They say Ansible is agentless. The 10,000 lines of YAML you maintain are the real agents -- of chaos

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

They say Ansible is agentless. The 10,000 lines of YAML you maintain are the real agents -- of chaos
Anonymous

Ansible is great. You replace a 50-line bash script that only one person understands with 5,000 lines of YAML that no one understands
Anonymous

Nothing says 'we've achieved DevOps maturity' quite like a 10,000-line YAML file that started as 'just a quick automation script' and now requires its own dedicated SRE team to debug why prod deployments fail on line 8,743
Anonymous

Ah yes, the classic infrastructure automation journey: start with 'SSH is tedious,' end with maintaining 11k lines of YAML across 353 files. At least your servers are consistently misconfigured now
Anonymous

Ansible playbooks: Start with elegant IaC, end with a 10k-line YAML beast that demands its own refactoring sprint
@kitbot256 8mo

… now you have two problems
@deadgnom32 8mo

based actually. now when I learned to deal with ansible. so many things have gotten much easier.
1. dev_meme 7mo
  
  Its not based at all, instead its 😁 At least now I have AI that gets the idea of joke and 2 of us can laught together Like a psycopaths 😐
  
  @deadgnom32 7mo
  
  well. my previous colleague did a great job designing those playbooks, roles. in my case. well it took me about 1 week to dive into it, but now it's really nice thing to work with. but yes. I've seen really disastrous playbooks out there. some were at such insanity level, that they made even variable system service names, for services that could run only in single instance on the server. God knows for what reason
@deadgnom32 8mo

on my experience
@Agent1378 8mo

Isnt there a graphical tool to create all these configs, by clicking mouse ?
1. @hyena_stuff 7mo
  
  GUIs are gross tho
  
  @Agent1378 7mo
  
  Just an opinion. Endless textile configs are grosserer
@mrYakov 8mo

I create python script, that ssh to each server and run bash commands
1. @chupasaurus 8mo
  
  Ansible always has been a syntax sugar over paramiko, Jinja et al.
@n3oney 8mo

too many servers? deploy nix