<p><a href="https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html#ansible-pull" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ansible-pull</a> would work well for this, though it makes the assumption that your clients are using ansible. That's not an assumption I would be comfortable making in your shoes.</p>
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<p>At this point it would appear to me that developing our own script to further automate the process would be a better solution</p>
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<p>I agree with that. Since you already have a script to figure out what needs to be downloaded, I'd extend that script to download the needed file(s) and trigger the installation/registration.</p>

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<p>I'm a developer on an agent software team, researching ways to streamline the mass deployment of our agent on clients' machines. Currently the process involves running a script to determine the exact package needed, downloading a bsx from our company's FTP and running it, followed by running an executable with flags for registration.</p>
<p>I've looked into Ansible as a possible improvement, however I'm unclear on the value it provides in such a case. What's more, I'm not sure I'm the right person to be authoring the clients' playbooks for such a thing. At this point it would appear to me that developing our own script to further automate the process would be a better solution, and let the customer DevOps team deploy it in whichever way they see fit.</p>
<p>Before I present these findings to my managers, I would appreciate any opinions on the matter the community could provide.</p>

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Improving deployment process of agent software
Itamar G
# Improving deployment process of agent software

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-16)

I'm a developer on an agent software team, researching ways to streamline the mass deployment of our agent on clients' machines. Currently the process involves running a script to determine the exact package needed, downloading a bsx from our company's FTP and running it, followed by running an executable with flags for registration.

I've looked into Ansible as a possible improvement, however I'm unclear on the value it provides in such a case. What's more, I'm not sure I'm the right person to be authoring the clients' playbooks for such a thing. At this point it would appear to me that developing our own script to further automate the process would be a better solution, and let the customer DevOps team deploy it in whichever way they see fit.

Before I present these findings to my managers, I would appreciate any opinions on the matter the community could provide.

**Tags:** ansible, deployment, practices


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-07-17. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

[ansible-pull](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html#ansible-pull) would work well for this, though it makes the assumption that your clients are using ansible. That's not an assumption I would be comfortable making in your shoes.

> At this point it would appear to me that developing our own script to further automate the process would be a better solution

I agree with that. Since you already have a script to figure out what needs to be downloaded, I'd extend that script to download the needed file(s) and trigger the installation/registration.


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