How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?
I’m currently in process of “building” my own server and I’m kinda wondering how “far” most people are going, where do y’all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.
Sounds cool. ansible could never convince me, though, because playbook writing is so annoying.
Oh, I am there with you on that. I got used in my previous job, where everything was done with Ansible, but I still find myself copy pasting and changing most of the times. I actually like way more a declarative approach a-la-terraform.
Overall though there is a lot of community material, and once the playbooks are written it’s quite good!
I guess if I would automate my base setups with ansible so that I have a good foundation and have learned the tool properly, I would stick to it, but it was one of the cases were I was pushed away right from the start.