ansible VS chezmoi

I put together a new version of my dotfile manager this weekend and figured it was time to share again since I was quite happy how it's turned out. By day I'm a engineer and I work in the terminal almost exclusively. My tools of choice are Alacritty + tmux + vim, plus many others. It supports both intel and arm Macs. Hope someone can find it helpful!

I do some ternary variable setting here if an example would help: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible/blob/main/playbooks/group_vars/os_Linux/system.yml

Here's the repo: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible

My tmux template: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible/blob/main/playbooks/templates/tmux.conf.j2

Personally I like the promoting approach. I use it to generate an inventory for localhost. Maybe there’s some examples you can use here: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible/blob/main/setup/site.yml

The main repo

With Ansible: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible

> A warning, not an admonishment: Use Apple services in a novel or unsupported manner and you're asking for trouble.

+1

I've always had sync issues with iCloud Drive when storing developer projects and related things there. It ends up stuck or confused or conflicted but tries to resolve the merge conflicts opaquely and it's hard to know there's a problem in real time vs until later when you find something broken. I keep all dev things out of iCloud after getting burned by this enough times over the years.

To OP: Consider a repo dotfiles setup like using Chezmoi or similar. Transitioning to it was less friction than I expected and the only downside really is having to remember to commit changes across devices.

https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi

chezmoi (<https://chezmoi.io> or <https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi>) has a couple dozen txtar tests. They are both amazing and completely frustrating to use, but I don't think that there would be a better way to test most of what chezmoi does without them.

Tom Payne (the creator and primary developer of chezmoi) has added some extra commands to the txtar context which makes things easier for certain classes of testing.

Thanks, I never heard of it before and it looks really interesting.

However, it seems that it does not cover all of my needs: https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/discussions/1510#discussi...

once i need a more complex solution (eg. for machine specific stuff), i'll probably switch to chezmoi which has more features and native windows support

I’ve been using chezmoi, which uses git, to manage my dot files and have different branches for these types of experiments.

https://chezmoi.io is a dotfile manager that is runs on multiple OSes (including Windows) while handling differences from machine to machine, allows you to store your secrets in your password manager (so you don't have to store secrets in your dotfile repo), and it even supports the NO_COLOR environment variable. Check it out! Disclaimer: I'm the author.

There's a comprehensive list of the most popular dotfile managers at https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/.

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chezmoi

Checkout yadm or chezmoi. They work great.