that sounds like a fun project, but you definately want to still automate its setup with something like ansible, saltstack, puppet, etc. Because someday, you'l

that sounds like a fun project, but you definately want to still automate its setup with something like ansible, saltstack, puppet, etc. Because someday, you'll get a new pet, with much more CPU power you'll want to migrate to. Or maybe rather than upgrade to a newer version, plus reconfigure disks, etc, its just easier to move to a new system, etc. Or the system just plain dies, DC burns down, etc, and you need to quickly use DR to get it setup on a new system. Having all those configs, settings, application's you install, etc, defined in a tool like ansible, and then checked into git is just about priceless especially for pets or snowflakes.