In a previous post I went through the steps necessary to install MooseFS 1.6.27 on FreeBSD 10.

MooseFS has since then been bumped up to version 2.0.60 but unfortunately the FreeBSD ports are still on 1.6.27. In the future I am planning to look …

This post is a sequel of this one.

This time, I've edited the Ansible hosts (/usr/local/etc/ansible/hosts) and instead of targetting my Ubuntu 14 LTS box I am targetting my FreeBSD 10 one.

Like before I've copied the ssh keys and I'll try to ping it with …

Ansible is a configuration management tool much like Chef and Puppet. The main difference is that Ansible pushes all configuration over SSH, whereas Chef/Puppet/Salt pull configuration using clients installed on the targets. Ansible has only two requirements:

1. SSH

2. Python needs to be installed on the targets

To install …