Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018)

Re:Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018) by cersa8 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:11AM (#30811516)

I wish there was a statically typed version of Ansible. There is Pulumi but it's mostly tied to cloud API's and not Linux system administration (setting up HAProxy, NGINX, PostgreSQL, users)

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Re:Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018) by edude03 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:37AM (#30812192)

Me too, though nix (https://nixos.org) and eventually nickel (https://nickel-lang.org) get you very close today.

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Re:Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018) by baq on Saturday March 26, 2022 @12:30PM (#30813250)

Not exactly that, but definitely take a look: https://dhall-lang.org/

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Re:Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018) by nijave on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:18AM (#30811558)

I wish Ansible just had better data handling. Adding variable assignment plays and jamming things in Jinja is pretty clunky (if you want to, say, pull some data from a REST API and loop over a subset of the info)

You could always make an Ansible module but then there's the overhead to managing/installing that

Data wrangling can also make idempotent playbooks a bit clunky, too. You get into this 2-4 play "run check, reshape results, conditionally run play" pattern

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