Keep it simple

[figjam@midwest.social]

I have to say, the resurgence of this energy in the last whenever has been refreshing. Can't we all just crank our hogs?

[milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee]

After a suspicious-looking guide I nearly started with, and the NoxOS split drama, and having homemanager bork my login in a test setup, I wonder if next time I'll try GUIX.

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

Mm, I love stacking weird formats. How many backslashes do I need for a regular expression to work right? 🥵

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

What's funny is that if you use attributes a lot then XML can be about the same size as JSON. But people think there are things you should and shouldn't use attributes for for some reason. The only thing XML has going for it is a really nice schema format, but even today that's pretty moot. JSON schema and others are pretty well supported.

[friend_of_satan@lemmy.world]

I was going to respond that those are both wrappers to ssh, but thought I'd verify first, and TIL "Paramiko is a pure-Python [1] (3.6+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol [2]"

[killabeezio@lemm.ee]

Oops yeah. Not sure why I was thinking Oracle

[flexibletoast@lemmy.world]

That's not entirely true. You could use Ansible Navigator and Execution Environments.

[zqps@sh.itjust.works]

Are you mixing metaphors, or enjoying fried chicken in slightly unconventional ways?

[mosiacmango@lemm.ee]

Well, I spent a non zero amount of time trying to use the word "sluiced," so I think mixing metaphors is probably accurate.

[paperd@lemmy.zip]

If you're not eating fried chicken while playing dark souls and enjoying both... Then I don't even know what to tell you.

[jaxxed@lemmy.ml]

You forgot that it can run without ssh set up, by installing ansible on the machines and letting them poll for changes.

[paperd@lemmy.zip]

Yeah, guix started as a nix fork with scheme, we all dancing at the same party.

[mlg@lemmy.world]

Last time I checked on ansible, it was a sysadmin complaining that he could just do everything better with vanilla bash scripts and that redhat keeps riding it because every company keeps asking for ansible experience, even if it's now a dated product.

And just personally, declarative anything seems to defeat it's own purpose any time you want to do something non standard, which comes up more often than you'd think.

[atlas_@lemmy.world]

Protip: you can actually just write your ansible (or any yaml really( as JSON.

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

The enemy gate is down

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

Feels insecure

[milan@discuss.tchncs.de]

i keep telling myself what a timesaver ansible is, while at the same time my simple scripts got abstracted and puzzled into more files, much harder to quickly read and understand them and after hours of frustration, ansible actually works. there may be multiple minutes of delay between my tasks wasting time like hell but it works. except when it doesn’t. there still is a playbook where the host cannot be reached and i keep on failing to understand why as everything appears to be the same and looks correct. there will be more hours wasted.

[0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The higher abstraction level is the price you pay for idempotency!

[hardcoreufo@lemmy.world]

I hate anything that uses python or depends on whitespace in it's code. Nothing but fucking problems. You know what's hard to see an extra space in a line of code. A missing semicolon is so much easier to find.

[captpretentious@lemmy.world]

mgmtconfig

Never heard of that, will be looking into it