I’m looking for interesting tools to automate managing packaging and configuring everything automated.

And yeah I know about NixOS but I like to distro hop and experiment so I for now know these:

  • Ansible - automating many machines, using different package names as vars and package managers.
  • Bash - the most native and compatible scripting language that can be.
  • Chezmoi - for dotfiles.

For now that’s it. I’m looking forward for your suggestions!

  • Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    I use SaltStack to automate my servers. Just feels better than Ansible to me.
    For my PC and laptop I don’t do anything, I haven’t hopped distribution since I started using Tumbleweed a few years ago.