Ansible NAS

So while trying to learn FreeNAS skillz I bumped into this:

https://davidstephens.uk/ansible/linux/ubuntu/2017/10/05/why-i-ditched-freenas-replaced-with-ubuntu-ansible/

and his git:

There is very little info outside of him, but it looks fairly strait forward and interesting. Anyone here run this?

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i’ve done ansible playbook deployments but not specifically his script

try it out and let us know how it goes.

I’m kind of in the FreeNAS camp- I get his gripes, but then I got my pee-pee slapped when trying Rockstor. If I drum up a free machine and some drives, I might mess with this.

I’m very much freebsd camp as well but you never know till you try

“the clowns at iXSystems”

He could choose omv to have a debian stable, but zfs…

A lot of resentment and regret in this text. Since freenas / truenas is so bad, there are probably a few other alternatives. But since he claims he’s doing a better job by himself, just congratulate him.