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Ansible

Software Tool · Self-hosted & homelab software · 15 mentions · 2 subreddits · discussed in r/sysadmin, r/homelab

Reddit take

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Pros

  • Ansible only requiring SSH access makes it a nice fit to the problem.
  • Personally, I would choose Ansible, but there is a whole family of similar tools to choose from: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, cfengine, etc.
  • +1 for ansible. It's built just for problems like this.
  • I agree with others, an ansible inventory and the ansible-console repl would have done this work across all nodes in several minutes.
  • Ansible should be able to help you with this

Cons

  • I'm running an Ubuntu container of Ansible and I'm about to play around with automation
  • The environment is fully managed by Ansible

Sentiment

13 positive (87%) · 2 mixed (13%) · 0 negative (0%)

Trust + time weighted score: +88% · raw score 87%

What redditors said (10 of 15)

I'm running an Ubuntu container of Ansible and I'm about to play around with automation
mixed · u/C****s · r/homelab · Dec 30, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Ansible only requiring SSH access makes it a nice fit to the problem.
positive · u/k****i · r/sysadmin · comment · Nov 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Personally, I would choose Ansible, but there is a whole family of similar tools to choose from: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, cfengine, etc.
positive · u/J****5 · r/sysadmin · comment · Nov 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
+1 for ansible. It's built just for problems like this.
positive · u/H****s · r/sysadmin · comment · Nov 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I agree with others, an ansible inventory and the ansible-console repl would have done this work across all nodes in several minutes.
positive · u/j****w · r/sysadmin · comment · Nov 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Ansible should be able to help you with this
positive · u/a****e · r/sysadmin · comment · Nov 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
It looks great but with ansible it could improve.
positive · u/Q****K · r/sysadmin · comment · Nov 5, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Ansible and Terraform are and have been a thing for a while.
positive · u/S****a · r/sysadmin · comment · Aug 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I’m already brushing up Ansible (going deep this time) and picking up Terraform.
positive · u/K****9 · r/sysadmin · Aug 27, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I know he loved Ansible and Git so I imagine there's repositories of config files and his software.
positive · u/C****e · r/homelab · Aug 10, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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