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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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[–] Voroxpete 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I completely agree. But I'm working from the assumption that if OP actually needs the ability to automatically provisions platforms, they're probably working at a larger scale than the typical small self-hosted home server. And I like to give options.

IMO, the only tools here that most self hosters need are Docker, and maybe Ansible, though even that is a stretch because in most cases you're just going to have one server running all your containers and that's it.

It's the whole "Cattle vs Pets" question. When you're a typical self hoster, you're probably better off just treating every server as a pet. But if you're using self hosting as a way of building job skills (which is exactly how I broke into IT) then you absolutely want to start learning how to wrangle cattle.