Ansible vs Puppet

Ansible vs. Puppet: A Brief Review

Ansible vs. Puppet: Installation Difference

Ansible vs. Puppet: scalability and configuration transport mechanism

CM Ansible Code Example

---
- name: Install Java 1.7
yum: name=java-1.7.0-openjdk state=present

- name: add group "tomcat"
group: name=tomcat

- name: add user "tomcat"
user: name=tomcat group=tomcat home=/usr/share/tomcat createhome=no
become: True
become_method: sudo

- name: Download Tomcat
get_url: url=http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.61/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.61.tar.gz dest=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.61.tar.gz

- name: Extract archive
command: chdir=/usr/share /bin/tar xvf /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.61.tar.gz -C /opt/ creates=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.61

- name: Symlink install directory
file: src=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.61 path=/usr/share/tomcat state=link

- name: Change ownership of Tomcat installation
file: path=/usr/share/tomcat/ owner=tomcat group=tomcat state=directory recurse=yes

- name: Configure Tomcat server
template: src=server.xml dest=/usr/share/tomcat/conf/
notify: restart tomcat

- name: Configure Tomcat users
template: src=tomcat-users.xml dest=/usr/share/tomcat/conf/
notify: restart tomcat

- name: Install Tomcat init script
copy: src=tomcat-initscript.sh dest=/etc/init.d/tomcat mode=0755

- name: Start Tomcat
service: name=tomcat state=started enabled=yes

- name: deploy iptables rules
template: src=iptables-save dest=/etc/sysconfig/iptables
when: "ansible_os_family == 'RedHat' and ansible_distribution_major_version == '6'"
notify: restart iptables

- name: insert firewalld rule for tomcat http port
firewalld: port=/tcp permanent=true state=enabled immediate=yes
when: "ansible_os_family == 'RedHat' and ansible_distribution_major_version == '7'"

- name: insert firewalld rule for tomcat https port
firewalld: port=/tcp permanent=true state=enabled immediate=yes
when: "ansible_os_family == 'RedHat' and ansible_distribution_major_version == '7'"

- name: wait for tomcat to start
wait_for: port=

CM Puppet Code Example

# @summary
#     Installs and configures the MySQL client.
#
# @example Install the MySQL client
#     class {'::mysql::client':
#         package_name => 'mysql-client',
#         package_ensure => 'present',
#         bindings_enable => true,
#     }
#
# @param bindings_enable
#     Whether to automatically install all bindings. Valid values are `true`, `false`. Default to `false`.
# @param install_options
#     Array of install options for managed package resources. You must pass the appropriate options for the package manager.
# @param package_ensure
#     Whether the MySQL package should be present, absent, or a specific version. Valid values are 'present', 'absent', or 'x.y.z'.
# @param package_manage
#     Whether to manage the MySQL client package. Defaults to `true`.
# @param package_name
#     The name of the MySQL client package to install.
#
class mysql::client (
    $bindings_enable = $mysql::params::bindings_enable,
    $install_options = undef,
    $package_ensure = $mysql::params::client_package_ensure,
    $package_manage = $mysql::params::client_package_manage,
    $package_name = $mysql::params::client_package_name,
)  inherits mysql::params {
    
    include '::mysql::client::install'

    if $bindings_enable {
        class { 'mysql::bindings':
            java_enable => true,
            perl_enable => true,
            php_enable => true,
            python_enable => true,
            ruby_enable => true,
        }
    }

# Anchor pattern workaround to avoid resources of mysql::client::install to
# "float off" outside mysql::client
anchor { 'mysql::client::start': }
-> Class['mysql::client::install']
-> anchor { 'mysql::client::end': }
}

Ansible vs. Puppet: Ease of Use

Ansible vs. Puppet: licensing and implementation costs

Ansible vs Puppet: Community

Ansible vs Puppet: which is better?

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