YannickB
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8 years ago Well as a reminder I first developed Clouder for my own need, while not being an expert with hosting. That way at least I am sure to be able to manage all concepts that I need ("they did it because they didn't knew it was impossible"), even if I may try to integrate other softwares as sublayer later if they are doing the job to avoid as much as possible reinventing the wheel (cf the discussion about the PaaS layer, here I hope to avoid manage PaaS concepts like for example private network between containers).
This means that each time someone quote a software, I go check to see if I reinvented the wheel... Well I have to say, it seems I underestimated Ansible, it looks indeed really close to Clouder, especially that's the first time I see the argument "multi-tiers deployment", if this means it manage links between applications, like I do with Clouder, then we are in direct competition. The web interface, Ansible Tower, seems to be closed source through.
To answer your question, yes Clouder is a web interface which connect to your server with ssh, deploy your containers, execute configuration (not with playbook but with system command defined in python code), and all executed command are logged, so we can can consider it a Configuration Management system.
The underlying question according to me is should we use Ansible as a sublayer, and make Clouder a direct competitor of Ansible Tower... I don't know yet, I only threw a quick look on their website, I need to investigate, feedback are welcomed. The crucial question is : are playbook as flexible as system commands in python code?
As always I remind the goal of Clouder : A tool to deploy complex and state of the art infrastructure for your enterprise/association/hosting company even if your are a novice sysadmin, you just click on buttons and you get your whole infra in an hour.You don't have to make days of research about docker, ansible, shinken, the applications you want to host etc... If a template exist, you just get it deployed and then you look at the details of your infrastructure only when you need it.
collex100
pasgou
There is an idea, if you find it is not on the current topic, please tell me. I found that the model works Clouder can operate as a Configuration Management. Managing such an application as Ansible. Requires three functions that perform Clouder: 1.Connecting to the server via SSH. 2.Execution playbook. 3.And perform log collection. There are three basic document. What do you think about this @YannickB?