Managing Debian configuration files with Ansible (DebConf17)
Channel: Evolix
Date: 2017-08-17

During DebConf17 in Montréal, Grégory Colpart and Jérémy Lecour speak about configuration files and Ansible on Debian servers. Ansible  is a popular Open Source tool for agent-less automation and orchestration. They introduce the ways of handling configuration files with Debian packages and the state of Ansible in Debian. They give few examples of good pratices (overrides, includes) and limitations with packaging. They present the state of art for editing configuration files with different Ansible modules (lineinfile, replace, template...).