Definitely investigate the tuning options. ControlPersist + pipelining does awesome wonders. We have pipelining off by default for max compatibility just so nobody gets stuck on an initial install, but feel free to stop by the list if you have questions.
Using "with_items" on yum/apt transactions also saves giant loads of time keeping things in single transactions.
I think this is probably accurate-ish:
http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2014/...
Definitely investigate the tuning options. ControlPersist + pipelining does awesome wonders. We have pipelining off by default for max compatibility just so nobody gets stuck on an initial install, but feel free to stop by the list if you have questions.
Using "with_items" on yum/apt transactions also saves giant loads of time keeping things in single transactions.
http://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-performance-tuning