Unrelated question - Ansible Collection
rockaut opened this issue · comments
Ahoi there,
as we currently are on our journey to implement ITSI, I had a look into if and what we can manage with Ansible. And "sadly" I just found this (what isn't what we need) and ansible-collection/splunk.es (https://github.com/ansible-collections/splunk.es) which is also not what we want ... BUT: as I am already somewhat experienced with collections (done some things on ansible-collection/grafana and zabbix) I thought it would be awesome to kick of an splunk.itsi collection. Especially as the splunk.es already did a great job on the base (httpapi).
I already have started with base_service_template.
I know this is not directly on this Repo but I hope maybe one of you can point me to the correct contacts to get this started?
The other way would be that I poke the ansible-collection community leads to open a new community collection for me - I just wanted to check back here first.
So, on the day before vacation mode I'm in rant mode - sorry for cross posting: splunk/ansible-role-for-splunk#89
But I don't know how much, if anything, is actually shared between this two projects. Which, from a customer perspective, is confusing at best and disturbing at worst.
Additionally I want to add this here too: as an customer it is confusion to see two "official" approaches which may or may not do the same without clarifying WHAT they do or don't. What I would like to see are official Ansible Collections with the appropriate roles and plays and modules and what-not. This way you could even take the Versioning more directly by publishing Version appropriate Collection releases.
Oh and something more:
it's not good if your own employees don't recommend using any of those ansible roles/projects but just use the plain old cli way
While my initial question was just on ITSI, we're also interested in Splunk ES too of course as it's the basis.
And to bring this to an end: doing this things more open is the key to get it accepted by everybody: customers as well as employees.