Anytime I would typically be reaching for a shell script of medium to long length, it's typically easier to maintain in Ansible.
But, if I find my Ansible is getting rather long, I need to do things more complicated than simple loops, or there isn't an Ansible primitive to interact with the system I'm working with... time to start reaching for an actual programming language like Python or Go.
Anytime I would typically be reaching for a shell script of medium to long length, it's typically easier to maintain in Ansible.
But, if I find my Ansible is getting rather long, I need to do things more complicated than simple loops, or there isn't an Ansible primitive to interact with the system I'm working with... time to start reaching for an actual programming language like Python or Go.