I use ansible on chimaera now (previously ascii and beowulf) with a lot of
different systems as clients (debian, devuan, ubuntu, RH, Suse, ...). No
big issues so far. Sometimes some bugs as always (for example there was a
version with a broken user creation module). For many tasks the version
from repo is enough. If you need newer features or if there is a python
compatibility problem (it depends on python) it is easy to install ansible
with pip.
Alternatives are more complicated in use as they need an agent software.
For ansible the only requirements for the client are an installed python
and an ssh access to an account with root permissions (direct or sudo).
Basic ansible scripts (called playbooks) are extremely easy to learn.

Disadvantage: it is based on python with common python problems: version
incompatibility (not often) and (sometime) low accuracy or even misleading
error messages.

My only concern is: it is maintained by RH...


On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 9:54 AM wirelessduck--- via Dng <dng@???>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if other people here have any experience running
> ansible on Devuan?
>
> Are there any issues with compatibility?
>
> Would you suggest using an alternative to ansible instead, eg.
> puppet/bolt/Chef?
>
> What is the normal install method here? I can see the debian/Devuan
> package repository versions are a bit behind (not unexpected), but I can
> also install latest version from pypi directly with pip or bundle my own
> deb package with dh-virtualenv.
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
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