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Re:Vim After 11 Years (2013) by Alupis on Sunday November 02, 2014 @10:00PM (#8549155)
this heavily depends on the scale of the server of course. not everyone has clusters. your VPS that hosts your blog is an example of something where Salt or Puppet would be WAY overkill.
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Re:Vim After 11 Years (2013) by vertex-four on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:11AM (#8549955)
> your VPS that hosts your blog is an example of something where Salt or Puppet would be WAY overkill.

I've used Salt for this in the past - it's not overkill, and it's good practice. Ansible is even more lightweight. You can set up a blog, an IRC bouncer, and whatever else, in practically no time. Then, when you inevitably mess it up, you can wipe it and have it running again in 10 minutes.

(At the moment, I use CoreOS on my server, so my configuration is just a bunch of Dockerfiles and fleetd unit files that I can edit locally.)

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