Keep it simple

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

fucking around with multiple incompatible versions of python

They're being treated for PTSD in solaris-land.

Yeah. I said solaris.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

they broke backwards compatibility

Tell me this is post-y2k and built in the dark ages after we lost our mentors and gurus without using those words.

[thenamlessguy@lemmy.world]

"Broke backwards compatibility"

Brother, what do you think versioning is for?

[cosmictrickster@lemmy.world]

You had me at “fuck Ansible”.

[azertyfun@sh.itjust.works]

Which versioning????

somekey: yes

Go right ahead and tell me what the YAML version is and what is the type of somekey is. Oh that's right, it's impossible, because the versioning is entirely up to the serializers for some godforsaken reason.

[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