I'm in a similar situation (3 different workstations that should have the same config) and tried to solve it with all major config management solutions (Ansible

I'm in a similar situation (3 different workstations that should have the same config) and tried to solve it with all major config management solutions (Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack) and also tried using a Bash script. While config management works perfectly at my workplace (for real servers), I found all of them way to complicated and slow to maintain my workstations. In the end I switched to use a plain Git-managed makefile which works perfectly for me, because: - Plain and simple syntax, single file - Shell autocompletion for Makefile targets, if I only want to install a small set - No need to write cfg management "modules" as I can achieve the same with minimal Bash scripting This is how my config looks currently: https://gist.github.com/ifischer/5fdd672aeed1099c1f6c6ea925c8277d https://gist.github.com/ifischer/5fdd672aeed1099c1f6c6ea925c...