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Use Custom Templates or Functions You can use templates to help reduce errors with repetitive tasks. For example, Jinja2 is a convenient templating tool for Ansible and Python. You can use ERB templates in Ruby with Puppet and Chef. Using ERB templates, you can generate...
Writing Good Configuration Templates When designing a configuration template there are a few things you need to consider. In this article I will explain these considerations and how they affect the design of the variables and templates. I will do this by comparing two templates that...