(R)?ex VS App-perlbrew

Take a look at Rexify.

I manage a small home lab of Gentoo installations, which I manage using Rex, but I kick the process off manually (generally overnight).

For something out of left field take a quick look at rex: https://www.rexify.org/.

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It is good at automating stuff, and has a pretty nice Rex framework for handling administration tasks: https://www.rexify.org/

Thanks to @ferki from project Rex!

The Rex friendly automation framework celebrated its 4000th commit and its 10 years 🎉

Rex can be an alternative to Ansible, but both are available for FreeBSD: https://www.rexify.org/

Maybe Rex (https://www.rexify.org/)? You'll need to know Perl, but Perl is in base and really good for this sort of thing.

Perlbrew on github

Note that this Oracle Linux VM comes with Perl 5.26, if you want a more recent version, you could use use Perlbrew.

Install your own Perl with perlbrew, instead of using the system Perl. Then every needed dependency is installed in an isolated Perl with cpanm.

The final and most exciting way to call --init is with a Perl version number. When called with a version number, Plx will look for a Perl of the given version first in your PATH and otherwise via Perlbrew.

perlbrew is a command line tool to intall Perl on user directries. You can install any version of Perl on your user directries and use it.

Can't perlbrew be an option? AFAIK, it installs the Perl of your choice "next to" the Perl that comes with the OS, so both will continue to work.