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by _frkl 7y ago
I'm not quite ready yet (esp. documentation is lacking), but I'm working on something to get the best of both worlds: https://freckles.io Basically, you write your state-defining code in Ansible, using either modules,
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by _frkl 7y ago
Neat, this looks really useful. Was on the lookout for a search engine for my auto-generated documentation pages, this looks like it could fit the bill.
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by _frkl 7y ago
Currently I'm working on documentation, trying to explain (and sort of figure out for myself) why I spent the last 2 years developing a declarative scripting framework called 'freckles' ( https://freckles.io ). Th
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by _frkl 7y ago
Really, you can't think of anything? No offense, to me that's a kinda bleak outlook. Money is sorta necessary, but to me it'd always just be the fuel that makes or keeps the interesting things happening.
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by _frkl 7y ago
Has any? I thought that was the point of the 'indie-' part...
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by _frkl 7y ago
Cool. This is really shaping up nicely. I have to admit that when I first heard of it, I thought it's probably just one of those projects I'll never hear from again. Really happy to be proven wrong!
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by _frkl 7y ago
Well, I guess that is where the Fermi paradox comes in...
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by _frkl 7y ago
Oh, sorry, I didn't express myself clearly: freckles still uses Ansible under the hood, it's just that the whole project sort of went it's own way and dragged me with it. Feels like it, anyway :-) freckles actually supports m
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by _frkl 7y ago
I agree. It's a game changer when you can easily replicate all or specific parts of your dev setup with one command, everywhere (remote server, new laptop, dev vm, even containers). I wrote a script for this too (actually using Ansible
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by _frkl 7y ago
Yes, I want the same thing. I do hope dockerfiles won't be the underlying configuration files to describe the machine setups though...
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by _frkl 7y ago
I don't know, not for me. I still think it's possible to think of your business also as a political statement. Sure, you have to be prepared to 'pay' for your conviction, and possibly fail because of it. Which does not s
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by _frkl 7y ago
Ha, I know exactly what you mean, Reddit is scary, esp. when you show them something you build very dear to your heart. If you are lucky, they just ignore you... :-)
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by _frkl 7y ago
Neat, this looks really well done. I should know, I am working on something similar, and coincidentally I also posted to Show HN yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20039933 ) :-) It seems we had roughly the s
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by _frkl 7y ago
Oh wow, this is really neat. Pretty useful, and cool implementation, I like that I can also use it with LXC!
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by _frkl 7y ago
Hi HackerNews! Let me introduce to you 'freckles', the dotfile-manager project that went a bit too far... 'freckles' is my take on 'Infrastructure as code', keeping the whole thing as nimble and flexible as pos
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Show HN: Freckles – A Stdlib for Devops, and More(freckles.io)
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by _frkl 7y ago
Really. I didnt know that was realistically possible. Do you have an example payload to create such a mess?
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by _frkl 7y ago
Neat, congrats. I'm currently using Zulip and custom integrations (which were very easy to do) to do more or less the same thing. So, not sure there's a reason for me to switch now. But I might have used this if it had been avail
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by _frkl 7y ago
Not sure how well that'd work in your situation, but maybe you could license the pro parts with one of the licensezero ( https://licensezero.com ) licenses. That would disallow use of your software (or the parts of it you c
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by _frkl 7y ago
Yeah, or just host it yourself once reviewed. That's what I do usually (not with this haven't heard of this before), but with scripts I find now and then).
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by _frkl 7y ago
How does saltstack do tasks that require root access? Use the root user directly?
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by _frkl 8y ago
Alternatively, you could always use pyinstaller to create a single static binary for a Python app, so no need for python to be installed at all. Not quite as performant as go, but should be good enough for this use case.
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by _frkl 8y ago
Basically this is what configuration management does. So, why not use Ansible, esp. ansible pull ( https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm... ). You'd prepare an ansible playbook, an
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by _frkl 8y ago
Found this just yesterday, and really really like the concept. Would be cool if it supported logins via Keycloak, as that's what I use. Will keep watching, it seems there's some work on Oauth/SSO going on.
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by _frkl 8y ago
Have you talked to them? What did they say if you did? Management might not be aware this is happening. This here might be a quick-and-dirty attempt to stop them, at least temporarily: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018&#x2
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by _frkl 8y ago
Maybe also look into https://licensezero.com . Even if you don't like the licenses (I think they are good), there are lots of interested articles in the blog.
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by _frkl 8y ago
Looks like this supports both, so one can always try both and see which one is a better fit in a certain situation.
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by _frkl 8y ago
This looks really interesting, esp. the multiple backends design. I was looking for something like this to use with seafile ( https://seafile.com ). Would that be possible? How hard is it to add a new adapter for a backend? My Jav
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by _frkl 8y ago
Probably too crude a solution for you, but when I had that problem, I created a 2nd Github account (you can also use a Github organization), and made that account the owner of the 'archived' repos.