Articles tagged as "ansible"

My first encounter with Ansible was at a conference in Berlin during a talk given by the great Jan-Piet Mens in 2014. The only automation tool I had been using up until then was Puppet (not counting homegrown Bash scripts here). For the last ten years Ansible has been a constant in my toolbox, both work-related and private. The following points convinced me back in 2014:

Backups are important. They already were important before the days of ransomware. I operate multiple virtual (public) Linux servers and also have a Synology NAS at home and I would like to keep backups of any valuable data these systems hold.