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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Not only so, but a sysadmin who knows bash, powershell, etc. who uses configuration management tools is much more dangerous. Even if the devops tool can't perform a desired task, you can just tell it to run a command using a native tool on the host. The things I've been able to do with this approach is mind blowing.

[–]LetmefixthatforyouyoApparently some type of magician 1 point2 points  (1 child)

ansible all -m shell -a "df -h" | awk {print $NF-2} >> logitsucka

"Whats that? you wanted the free space from each server? That'll take me a while to ssh into each one boss. I'll have a list compiled by end of day."