I’m setting up an application using containers with ansible. I want to be able to set up the same application multiple times with a different set of variables. Is there a way how I could do this in parallel on a single host? I know I could deploy the same application n times on n different hosts, but what about n times on a single host? Is something like this possible? Doing it sequential obviously works, but it doesn’t scale well.
Could one maybe use multiple hosts in the ansible inventory that point to the same host?
Maybe k8s ist better suited for this.
Yes, you could setup multiple DNS aliases in your nameserver/router or in your
/etc/hostsfile that point to the same IP; DNS might round-robin through the IPs, but I’ve never tried this.EDIT: You’re right, the DNS aliases go in the Ansible inventory, no need for DNS round-robin. Short brainfart, sry. EDIT END.
I have near-zero experience with k8s (apart from a little bit of Minikube, which I hated), so I can’t say anything about that option, but my impression is that it’s massive overkill for almost all use cases, aka “you’re not Google”.