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"And without maintenance, that playbook will eventually decay and stop working." This is the part that has killed this as an activity for me. I really enjoyed
by mikepurvis 5y ago
"And without maintenance, that playbook will eventually decay and stop working."
This is the part that has killed this as an activity for me. I really enjoyed the experience of setting up playbooks and so on for my home server (deluge, jellyfin, zoneminder, etc), but in the end I didn't have the time to do much more than make the occasional config tweaks and restart it all live, and once that started happening, the scripts were no longer of value, and it was clear there was no point.
That said, I know some Nix acolytes swear by it for this kind of thing, in part because it really forces you to do things using its declarative wrappers and intentionally doesn't provide workarounds the way containers do ("just shell in and change whatever, lol").
- FooHentai 5y agoSame here - The survivors on my home network are the ones with minimal ongoing BS. PFSense updates itself and chugs along like a champ. Plex does similar and never needs any kind of complex migration between versions. The Aruba wifi gear I picked up for a song because no bugger knows how to configure it is a million firmware versions behind current and it performs just brilliantly. Many other things - Nextcloud, caddy, proxmox to name a few, are long gone now because they demanded hours of attention at unpredictable times, and I just can't be jeffed. I still love tinkering with bits of tech on the home network, but I'm extremely wary of coming to rely on any of it until it's proven itself to need minimal ongoing babysitting.