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Old bash scripts != cryptic one liners. I had used very readable and documented scripts that would build images, boot VMs, deploy on physicals, configure netwo

Old bash scripts != cryptic one liners. I had used very readable and documented scripts that would build images, boot VMs, deploy on physicals, configure network devices with hundreds of SLOC by simply calling the right CLI tools instead of (re)writing many thousands of lines in $language. I was in a company around 2002 doing immutable deployments by updating images from git-tracked config files for whole datacenters. E.g. calling to debootstrap takes few lines. Generating an ISO. Configuring PXE to serve it... As a funny non-example: https://github.com/p8952/bocker https://github.com/p8952/bocker

throwanem 9y ago
That must've been amazing, back in the day! The organization was clearly far, far ahead of the curve, not least in that they adopted Git three years or more prior to its initial public release. Fantastic as it no doubt was, though, I'm glad that such awe-inspiring wizardry is no longer required to achieve a similar quality of result.