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Beyond Facts: Retrieving AWS Resource IDs
I’m a huge fan of Ansible and I’ve made use of it in several projects to orchstrate AWS services. Ansible is designed to be simple, with most functionality contained in modules which are callable via tasks in playbooks. This has huge benefits, but also bears the major drawback of significant boilerplate when you need to…
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Ansible Recommended Patterns
It can be tricky to figure things out when structuring new projects. You might set out to make things as comprehensive as possible, to accommodate future expansion, but this raises the barrier to entry and can leave you in a quandry about where things should go. Or you might opt for the lean approach, making…