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

Ansible is a RedHat product, not IBM. Puppet is used for a much bigger implementations and orchestration along side Jenkins (what I’ve seen mostly).

I’ve been using Docker a lot to replace my VBox setups, but can be a bit limited depending on what you are doing (D-Sub missing in some cases - running on Mac).

Jenkins is a good tool for pulling steps together.

Overall, I like to us HashiCorp Packer to build docker images or even VMs. Just make for a be more repeatable process.

-Bobby

> On Jul 28, 2021, at 11:26 AM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto: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 <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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