Archaeology
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Ansible before Ansible: ssh, a CSV and a template engine
Before Ansible existed, there was my 2006-2007 contraption: a host list, an ssh loop, inventory variables in a CSV, pure bash and a template engine whose name I have shamefully forgotten. Assumed archaeology of what worked, what was missing and what Ansible later made explicit.
The FOG client: python 2, cron every five minutes and a fleet that rebooted itself into place
Archaeology from before 2013, under my old gobel1 identity: a python2 client for FOG imaging that polled jobs by cron, rebooted unused workstations into imaging, renamed them by MAC address and tracked users through GDM session hooks. Dissected kindly, because it worked for years.