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Use this tag for questions about Ansible, an open-source automation engine, related to using Ansible for topics such as cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, etc.

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Are configuration management tools appropriate to use as deployment tools?

Examples of configuration management tools are Chef, Puppet, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, Salt Stack. … Question: Have configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible and Puppet matured to the point that they are capable of fulfilling both the idempotent and imperative models? …
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Ansible playbook fails with: no test named 'success'

I have an Ansible Playbook that is used to configure WSL on my Windows Laptop, having rebuilt my laptop recently I needed to run the playbook again, however it is failing with the following message: The … --version ansible 2.2.1.0 config file = /mnt/c/source/richardslater/workstation-setup/wsl/plays/ansible.cfg configured module search path = Default w/o overrides and pip show jinja2 Name: Jinja2 …
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