Re: Best tool to automate softwares/tools installation/configuration on a ready virtual machine

Or Puppet.

Ansible is rather schizophrenic in nature. Variables can be stored in at least two places, and it is sometimes necessary to use Jinja.

Puppet is much better organized, at least IMO.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:04 Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> You can always clone a container. Other than that, it sounds like a case
> for Ansible.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/ansible
>
> Ansible is an open source IBM product.
>
> On 6/18/21 9:13 PM, kunwar singh wrote:
> > Hi Listers,
> > In my organization, I can get a virtual machine for testing purposes.
> >
> > I do below kind of activities:
> > Install docker and create lot of application images
> > Install jenkins , save lot of docker image creation steps in Jenkins
> > scripts
> > Install Python3.8 and lot of modules
> > Copy swingbench and few configurations.
> > Configure few other changes in above as needed.
>
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