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Discussion on: Why you might need Ansible and not even know it

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Thomas H Jones II

Its idempotency is decent ...just that sometimes you have to be fairly deliberate in how you code things to achieve the desired degree of idempotency. Not everyone wants to sort out the logic necessary to create an always-valid when condition.

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Piotr Gaczkowski

True, sometimes it can be a bit problematic. But again, when compared to shell scripts, you still win with Ansible.

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Thomas H Jones II

Yeah. Easier in all of the CM-oriented tooling (...and each has their own challenges to ensuring actual idempotency that the vendors tend to gloss over).