juju vs. Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible/etc.

[Eric Snow]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Michael Nelson
<michael.nelson at canonical.com> wrote:
> In online-services we've been using ansible together with juju for
> quite a while, and have pushed some generic helpers into charm-helpers
> that allow running a hook to equate to running all tasks in a playbook
> tagged with the hook name [1][2]. After using that for over a year,
> we've also developed some reusable ansible roles which make it much
> easier for us to maintain lots of charms, but ymmv (as they're often
> for specific ways which we need to do things, like deploying code from
> a swift container, or setting up nrpe checks etc.) [3]
>
> Using those ansible helpers within juju really won't allow you to
> simply re-use your ansible playbook, but it's pretty easy to adapt an
> ansible playbook to a charm (ie. just tagging tasks for certain
> relations).

That's pretty cool stuff.  Thanks for sharing that (and doing the
work).  It would be great if we could leverage what you've done to be
more visible to customers.  Having similar support for Puppet, Chef,
and Salt would be awesome too.  It's just a matter of justifying the
resources to get it done...

-eric