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does not create its own programming language. What constructs Ansible does have should be enough to cover 80% or so of the cases of most Puppet users, and it should scale equally well (not having a server is
does not create its own programming language. What constructs Ansible does have should be enough to cover 80% or so of the cases of most Puppet users, and it should scale equally well (not having a server is
almost like cheating).</p>
almost like cheating).</p>
<p>Ansible does support gathering variables from ‘facter’, if installed, and Ansible templates
<p>Ansible does support gathering variables from ‘facter’, if installed, and Ansible templates
in jinja2 in a way just like Puppet does with erb. Ansible in version 0.3 will has it’s own facts,
in jinja2 in a way just like Puppet does with erb. Ansible also has it’s own facts though,
however, so it will not need to rely on facter, but can use it if available.</p>
so usage of facter is not required to get variables about the system.</p>
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<divclass="section"id="vs-chef">
<h3>vs Chef?<aclass="headerlink"href="#vs-chef"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<h3>vs Chef?<aclass="headerlink"href="#vs-chef"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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program. I believe this strongly leads to more reliable software and a richer
program. I believe this strongly leads to more reliable software and a richer
open source community – the code is kept simple so it is easy for anyone to
open source community – the code is kept simple so it is easy for anyone to
submit a patch or module.</p>
submit a patch or module.</p>
<p>Ansible does support gathering variables from ‘ohai’, if installed. As of release
<p>Ansible does support gathering variables from ‘ohai’, if installed. Ansible also
0.3, Ansible will also have it’s own facts system so you will not need to use ohai
has it’s own facts so you do not need to use ohai unless you want to.</p>
or facter (or have a dependency on Ruby).</p>
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</div>
<divclass="section"id="vs-capistrano-fabric">
<divclass="section"id="vs-capistrano-fabric">
<h3>vs Capistrano/Fabric?<aclass="headerlink"href="#vs-capistrano-fabric"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<h3>vs Capistrano/Fabric?<aclass="headerlink"href="#vs-capistrano-fabric"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>