On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Robyn Bergeron <rbergero(a)redhat.com> wrote:
That said, let me reiterate this particular point for the bazillionth
time: Ansible is an orchestration tool, that happens to do
configuration management. You can set things up with Ansible and NEVER
EVER USE ANSIBLE AGAIN to manage that stuff. You can use Puppet, or
Chef, or whatever, or heck, you can use Ansible to manage Puppet's
management of that stack for you.
This does not force a permanent choice of Ansible down anyone's
throat. It is literally orchestrating some bits onto a machine that
never ever have to be touched by Ansible again.
This is said much better than above, and I was attempting to make the
same point as this. No agents, no need to run it whenever you don't
want to. Deploy with Ansible, and manage with $other_cm_tool. Nothing
is forcing Ansible on anybody, it's simply a means to an end.