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The part about learning Debian packaging to replace Bash+Ansible rings so true to me. Sounds a bit like this flow played out yet again: https://docs.monadical.
by nikisweeting 4y ago
The part about learning Debian packaging to replace Bash+Ansible rings so true to me.
Sounds a bit like this flow played out yet again: https://docs.monadical.com/s/against-curl-sh#A-tale-as-old-as-time https://docs.monadical.com/s/against-curl-sh#A-tale-as-old-a...
- mtlynch 4y agoHey, Nick! Good to hear from you again. Yeah, that blog post definitely resonates with me. As I've been learning about Debian packaging, there are so many times I think, "Oh, why was I reinventing what Debian does really well?" Part of it is also just getting lost in the local maxmium of Ansible. I kept feeling like, "Well, I'm not reinventing the wheel. Ansible has a pre-built module for creating users / installing dependencies / installing services, but then the Debian package manager does it so much better and faster.
- nikisweeting 4y agoHowdy friend! I've loved following your progress with these posts over the years :) Ansible is definitely more ergonomic than Debian packaging still. I hope someday we get a better pipline for deb/pkg that's closer to yaml/declarative-style config that Ansible offers. Despite packaging for deb for 3 years now I still have no clue how to do it by memory, I have to check my own docs every time.