{"id":27513,"date":"2017-04-10T10:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T08:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27513"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T08:38:32","slug":"why-configuration-management-and-provisioning-are-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/10\/why-configuration-management-and-provisioning-are-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Configuration Management and Provisioning are Different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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In “Why Configuration Management and Provisioning are Different<\/a>”\u00a0Carlos Nu\u00f1ez advocates for the use of specialized infrastructure provisioning tools, like Terraform<\/a>, Heat<\/a>, and\u00a0CloudFormation<\/a>, instead of relying on the configuration management tools, like Ansible<\/a> or Puppet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I agree with his argument for the rollbacks, but not so much for the maintaining state and complexity. \u00a0However I’m not yet comfortable to word my disagreement – my head is all over the place with clouds, and I’m still weak on the terminology.<\/p>\n

The article is nice regardless, and made me look at the provisioning tools once again.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

In “Why Configuration Management and Provisioning are Different”\u00a0Carlos Nu\u00f1ez advocates for the use of specialized infrastructure provisioning tools, like Terraform, Heat, and\u00a0CloudFormation, instead of relying on the configuration management tools, like Ansible or Puppet. I agree with his argument for the rollbacks, but not so much for the maintaining state and complexity. \u00a0However I’m not … Continue reading Why Configuration Management and Provisioning are Different<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Why Configuration Management and Provisioning are Different #SysAdmin #cloud #AWS #hosting","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,133,62,1334],"tags":[3270,3507,3383,2366,3195,3509,3218,3508,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-amazon-aws","tag-amazon-cloudformation","tag-ansible","tag-cloud-computing","tag-configuration-management","tag-heat","tag-puppet","tag-terraform","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22303,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/30\/terraform-infrastructure-automation-and-management-tool\/","url_meta":{"origin":27513,"position":0},"title":"Terraform – infrastructure automation and management tool","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 30, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Terraform - infrastructure automation and management tool. \u00a0It complements\u00a0configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef, as well as infrastructure building tools like CloudFormation. \u00a0The beauty of it is that it is tool and cloud agnostic. \u00a0You can use it to build and maintain infrastructure across multiple clouds.","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26931,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/21\/using-ansible-to-bootstrap-an-amazon-ec2-instance\/","url_meta":{"origin":27513,"position":1},"title":"Using Ansible to bootstrap an Amazon EC2 instance","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This article - \"Using Ansible to Bootstrap My Work Environment Part 4\" is pure gold for anyone trying to figure out all the moving parts needed to automate the provisioning and configuration of the Amazon EC2 instance with Ansible. 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