[tor-bugs] #31239 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: automate installs

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#31239: automate installs
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 Reporter:  anarcat                              |          Owner:  anarcat
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:
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Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
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Comment (by anarcat):

 > The idea to use ansible up to the point where puppet kicks in is great
 in this sense imo.

 I'd be open to this idea. But before I would start messing around with
 Ansible, I'd do things by hand and refactor things around Puppet. I'm not
 familiar enough with Ansible to be confident I would go anywhere. :p

 One problem I feel is inherent to Ansible is that it has its own bootstrap
 problems. We first need to setup SSH to get it working, and that means
 fiddling around with networking and SSH configuration by hand. But maybe
 that would be easier than bootstrapping the entire host (partitionning,
 networking and debootstrap) by hand?

 Or is there an easier way to bootstrap ansible? Could we git clone an
 ansible playbook on new hosts and run it directly from there?

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