A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
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Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#2give me this for mac os please. my home-rolled dotfiles repo is ok, but id really love some config management system that’s not ansible that i could use to bootstrap my workstations.
i used to write a lot of chef and generally like ruby, but i can’t make heads or tails of whatever progress chef is. mostly seems like chef as an oss tool is dead.
anybody got something else they like to configure their mac os systems with?
Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#3give me this for mac os please. my home-rolled dotfiles repo is ok, but id really love some config management system that’s not ansible that i could use to bootstrap my workstations. i used to write a lot of chef and generally like ruby, but i can’t make heads or tails of whatever progress chef is. mostly seems like chef as an oss tool is dead. anybody got something else they like to configure their mac os systems wi…
Pyinfra supports home brew: https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/latest/operations/brew.html
I’ve thought about using it to set up my machines/machines at work but haven’t gone down that road yet.
Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#4give me this for mac os please. my home-rolled dotfiles repo is ok, but id really love some config management system that’s not ansible that i could use to bootstrap my workstations. i used to write a lot of chef and generally like ruby, but i can’t make heads or tails of whatever progress chef is. mostly seems like chef as an oss tool is dead. anybody got something else they like to configure their mac os systems wi…
What's wrong with ansible?
Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#5Have you looked at salt?
Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#6give me this for mac os please. my home-rolled dotfiles repo is ok, but id really love some config management system that’s not ansible that i could use to bootstrap my workstations. i used to write a lot of chef and generally like ruby, but i can’t make heads or tails of whatever progress chef is. mostly seems like chef as an oss tool is dead. anybody got something else they like to configure their mac os systems wi…
What's wrong with ansible?
Same, I looked all over the project and couldn't find a reason for using it vs Ansible.
Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#7give me this for mac os please. my home-rolled dotfiles repo is ok, but id really love some config management system that’s not ansible that i could use to bootstrap my workstations. i used to write a lot of chef and generally like ruby, but i can’t make heads or tails of whatever progress chef is. mostly seems like chef as an oss tool is dead. anybody got something else they like to configure their mac os systems wi…
Ansible is a little heavyweight for what you want, but if you wrap it in a script and only use the built-in modules, it's probably got everything you need.
Here's the wrapper script:
ansible-playbook -i localhost, --connection=local playbook.yml "$@"
[0] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/...
Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#8I might just be biased by selective attention, but it seems like more and more of these are popping up lately.
I feel like we will eventually recognize a variant of Greenspun's Tenth Rule as common wisdom:
> Any sufficiently complicated build system or configuration management system contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Nix.
(Although to be honest it might make more sense to replace "Nix" with "Guix"...)
Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#9Interesting. Almost like a declarative configuration scheme.
Re: A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
#10give me this for mac os please. my home-rolled dotfiles repo is ok, but id really love some config management system that’s not ansible that i could use to bootstrap my workstations. i used to write a lot of chef and generally like ruby, but i can’t make heads or tails of whatever progress chef is. mostly seems like chef as an oss tool is dead. anybody got something else they like to configure their mac os systems wi…
What didn't you like about Ansible? Here's an example of how I use an Ansible playbook to manage my own dotfiles:
https://github.com/leigh-johnson/dotfiles/blob/master/instal...