Ansible versus Puppet in Initial Device Provisioning
One of the attendees of my Building Next-Generation Data Center course asked this interesting question after listening to my description of differences between Chet/Puppet and Ansible:
For Zero-Touch Provisioning to work, an agent gets installed on the box as a boot up process that would contact the master indicating the box is up and install necessary configuration. How does this work with agent-less approach such as Ansible?
Here’s the first glitch: many network devices don’t ship with Puppet or Chef agent; you have to install it during the provisioning process.
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