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I would like to have a mechanism to set up a server automagically… (social.graves.cl)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would like to have a mechanism to set up a server automagically…

Similarly I would like to set up my user account settings (Tmux plugins, .zshrc and vim settings, etc) that I can replicate in multiple machines via a script (I have a custom script for this but I want a more solid alternative)

Thoughts on what infra-as-code solution would work best? Any similar experiences or use cases with one Thanks!
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why is infra as a code so sought after? I feel like this is installation scripts and config like bare bones, but you need another layer to make it work on top. What am I missing?

[–] taladar 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why you would use it for a single server with a single admin you only install once but for multiple admins and many servers it provides repeatable results that are the same no matter who does it and it also allows you to add small settings that you would never do by hand every time you install a new machine. There is nothing worse than discovering that your dev system and your production system differ in a minor way that makes a test succeed on dev but fail on production because of something someone installed or configured manually. Well, apart from discovering that same thing happened with your 5 year old production server you are trying to reinstall after it broke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What I mean is that repeatability can be achieved in other, simpler ways. Like a package for example.

I feel like as technologies, ansible and docker have been spread beyond their relevant scope of usefulness. But maybe that's me.

I feel like ansible is a complex way of doing simple things.

[–] taladar 2 points 8 months ago

Packages seem like a very convoluted way to achieve something like setting a host name or configuring the DNS server a system uses or the packages that are installed or which virtual hosts a web server serves and which certificates it uses to do so.