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> So, instead of learning Puppet or Terraform, you want to implement one from scratch? I definitely don't want to implement from scratch. I share his sentimen
by philliphaydon 4y ago
> So, instead of learning Puppet or Terraform, you want to implement one from scratch?
I definitely don't want to implement from scratch.
I share his sentiments. I keep hearing about Puppet Labs (i think is the right one), but I've been to the site a bunch of times and I end up leaving because I have no idea where to start. So I really donno how I would benefit over just using a few bash scripts or powershell scripts to manage my Linux/Windows servers inn AWS.
Many different things are like this. The barrier to entry is high, once you get started it becomes easier and you tend to agree that the tool is much better than other alternatives.
However I today learned that Pinia is the state management library that replaces Vuex in Vue. (effectively V5 of Vuex) and I opened up the documentation, and within a few minutes of reading I had it up in running in my little side project. The documentation explained why its now Pinia, and gave a concrete working example of a simple counter and how its used.
Vue, Rust, Postgres - these all have my favourite documentation.
- randomswede 4y agoIf a few bash scripts is enough for you to manage your servers, you probably don't need puppet (or ansible, or chef). But, yes, I agree that the puppet documentation is (or at least was, I have not looked at it for several years) not entirely brilliant. It is an OK reference manual, but like so much documentation, it is more difficult than necessary for learning the thing.