Re: [ansible-project] ansible as an upgrade/migration tool

[Michael DeHaan]

On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ernest0x wrote:

Hello,

Consider the following scenario:

'First deployment' phase:

ansible is used as a deployment tool for a newly developed software system on one or more customers.

'Upgrade / Migration' phases :

As development on the software goes on, the already deployed systems would need to be upgraded to new releases.

How well do you believe that ansible can handle these 'Upgrade/Migration' phases? Is it being developed with these cases (also) in mind or it is better suited for new deployments?

Ansible is for managing a system throughout it's entire life cycle, not just provisioning -- that's the whole point of the idempotent configuration management resource model.

And yes, that's why I wrote it, specifically.

--Michael