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No ads. No tracking. Inspired by Bored Zebra's 100 Jumps (and shared with their blessing. Thanks!). Couple of screenshots: https://goto.mig5.net/@mig5/statuses/01KWRJMJDFSF1TA28XTN…

Hi everyone! I'm pleased to report I'm releasing Enroll 0.4.0 today. It has some cool new features: --ignore-package-versions for 'enroll diff' ,so you don't get alerted to just st…

I captured most of the above in the docs now: https://enroll.sh/docs.html#harvest I've also published a JSONSchema of the state.json file here to help people understand its structu…

Cool tool, didn't know it existed! :) Thanks for passing on the word. 'Capture app and system stuff and deploy anywhere' is totally the goal :)

Thanks for all the love HN! I had a lot of good feedback directly from the comments here, and have made a new release that contains some bug fixes, as well as an improvement to sup…

Dang! Seems strange.. I guess you are not using password-less sudo? (I'm interested to understand how Ansible itself works for you then too in such a setup, you have it prompting f…

Thanks for the comment and questions! Very wise. Let me break it down as to what harvest does: 1) Detects the OS and its package backend (e.g dpkg vs rpm etc) 2) Detects what packa…

Ah, this is not a problem for me on my remote hosts. I'm guessing this comes down to a sudoers policy on certain distros (redhat-like ones perhaps). I'm about to make a new release…

Thanks usrme! Good questions. I run QubesOS as my workstation, so it's been really beneficial here, because Qubes is all VMs and templates. I've been 'harvesting' one Qube VM and t…

Hi mlrtime. You could run it on a base system, and use --exclude-path and --include-path all you want, to capture or ignore the things you don't care about. Treat that as your 'gol…

Thank you, Jeff! What an honour! Let me say that nothing compares to your catalogue of Ansible roles that I have benefited from for many years, which are far better written than an…

Yup - it can be pretty overwhelming, it depends on what it detected on your system! The state.json will usually explain why it 'harvested' something (perhaps it was because it foun…

It does! There are several sort of 'catch-alls' in place: 1) stuff in /etc that doesn't belong to any obvious package, ends up in an 'etc_custom' role 2) stuff in /usr/local ends u…

I started this tool a few months ago after years of using RedNoteBook, which I started to grow frustrated with. I wanted a notebook app that: 1) doesn't do any network connectivity…

Hi westurner! > Could it also detect changed package files; if there are per-package-file checksums like with debsums and `rpm -V`? Yes, that's exactly what it does. See https://gi…

I agree! It's always a 'best effort' tool. There's going to be corner cases where something that might end up in the 'logrotate' role could arguably be better placed in a more spec…

Whoops, thanks, I'll adjust that example! Indeed when using single-shot, unless you're using the --remote modes (in which case, the harvest is pulled down to a machine-generated pa…

Here's a video of JinjaTurtle, the companion tool that converts configs to Jinja2 templates and Ansible vars: https://asciinema.org/a/765293 Enroll will automatically make use of j…