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Ansible vs Bamboo: What are the differences?

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Key differences between Ansible and Bamboo

  1. Installation and setup: Ansible is an open-source automation tool that can be easily installed and set up on various platforms, including Linux, Windows, and macOS. On the other hand, Bamboo is a commercial Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) tool that requires a dedicated server for installation and configuration.

  2. Configuration management: Ansible focuses on configuration management and allows users to define infrastructure as code using simple YAML-based playbooks. It follows a push-based model, where the control machine pushes the configurations to the target hosts. Bamboo, on the other hand, primarily acts as a CI/CD tool and does not provide extensive configuration management capabilities.

  3. Supported technologies: Ansible supports a wide range of technologies and platforms, including cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as networking devices, databases, and more. Bamboo, on the other hand, is primarily focused on building, testing, and deploying software applications. It provides integrations with popular development tools like Git, JIRA, and Maven.

  4. Scalability and performance: Ansible is designed to be highly scalable and can handle thousands of hosts simultaneously. It utilizes an agentless architecture, where remote hosts do not require any additional software or daemons to be installed. Bamboo, on the other hand, may face scalability challenges as the number of build agents and concurrent builds increase, requiring additional resources and configuration.

  5. Community and support: Ansible has a large and active community of users and contributors, providing extensive documentation, modules, and playbooks. It also has an enterprise version called Ansible Tower, which offers additional features, support, and integration options. Bamboo, being a commercial product, offers official support from Atlassian, the company behind Bamboo, along with paid add-ons and plugins.

  6. Ease of use and learning curve: Ansible has a relatively low learning curve and is known for its simplicity and ease of use. It uses a declarative language (YAML) for defining tasks and configurations, making it straightforward for beginners to understand and deploy. Bamboo, on the other hand, requires a bit more learning and configuration, especially when setting up build plans and defining deployment workflows.

In summary, Ansible is an open-source automation tool with a strong focus on configuration management, providing extensive platform and technology support. On the other hand, Bamboo is a commercial CI/CD tool primarily designed for building, testing, and deploying software applications, offering enterprise support and integrations with popular development tools.

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I'm just getting started using Vagrant to help automate setting up local VMs to set up a Kubernetes cluster (development and experimentation only). (Yes, I do know about minikube)

I'm looking for a tool to help install software packages, setup users, etc..., on these VMs. I'm also fairly new to Ansible, Chef, and Puppet. What's a good one to start with to learn? I might decide to try all 3 at some point for my own curiosity.

The most important factors for me are simplicity, ease of use, shortest learning curve.

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I have been working with Puppet and Ansible. The reason why I prefer ansible is the distribution of it. Ansible is more lightweight and therefore more popular. This leads to situations, where you can get fully packaged applications for ansible (e.g. confluent) supported by the vendor, but only incomplete packages for Puppet.

The only advantage I would see with Puppet if someone wants to use Foreman. This is still better supported with Puppet.

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If you are just starting out, might as well learn Kubernetes There's a lot of tools that come with Kube that make it easier to use and most importantly: you become cloud-agnostic. We use Ansible because it's a lot simpler than Chef or Puppet and if you use Docker Compose for your deployments you can re-use them with Kubernetes later when you migrate

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Pros of Ansible
Pros of Bamboo
  • 284
    Agentless
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    Great configuration
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    Simple
  • 176
    Powerful
  • 155
    Easy to learn
  • 69
    Flexible
  • 55
    Doesn't get in the way of getting s--- done
  • 35
    Makes sense
  • 30
    Super efficient and flexible
  • 27
    Powerful
  • 11
    Dynamic Inventory
  • 9
    Backed by Red Hat
  • 7
    Works with AWS
  • 6
    Cloud Oriented
  • 6
    Easy to maintain
  • 4
    Vagrant provisioner
  • 4
    Simple and powerful
  • 4
    Multi language
  • 4
    Simple
  • 4
    Because SSH
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    Procedural or declarative, or both
  • 4
    Easy
  • 3
    Consistency
  • 2
    Well-documented
  • 2
    Masterless
  • 2
    Debugging is simple
  • 2
    Merge hash to get final configuration similar to hiera
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    Fast as hell
  • 1
    Manage any OS
  • 1
    Work on windows, but difficult to manage
  • 1
    Certified Content
  • 10
    Integrates with other Atlassian tools
  • 4
    Great notification scheme
  • 2
    Great UI
  • 1
    Has Deployment Projects

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Cons of Ansible
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    Dangerous
  • 5
    Hard to install
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    Doesn't Run on Windows
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    Bloated
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    Backward compatibility
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    No immutable infrastructure
  • 6
    Expensive
  • 1
    Low community support
  • 1
    Bad UI
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    Bad integration with docker

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What is Ansible?

Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.

What is Bamboo?

Focus on coding and count on Bamboo as your CI and build server! Create multi-stage build plans, set up triggers to start builds upon commits, and assign agents to your critical builds and deployments.

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