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Chef | GNU Stow | |
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2 | 4 | |
7,475 | 548 | |
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9.6 | 9.2 | |
1 day ago | 18 days ago | |
Ruby | Perl | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Chef
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I_suck_and_my_tests_are_order_dependent
my contribution: public_method_that_only_deep_merge_should_use
https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/68dd5f42273f19bc5975c0dc8e...
that was 9 years ago and it was code smell that things were broken apart incorrectly and at some point i rewrote it so that wasn't necessary -- but sometimes you just gotta move the ball down the field, even if you don't get a first down.
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Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
I've found the Chef project (https://github.com/chef/chef) to be high quality and easily readable but I've been working with Chef for like 8 years at this point which might be influencing how I view it.
Hashicorp projects also seem very well done too especially given how extensible they are.
GNU Stow
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GNU Stow is a very useful Perl program but it has some minor issues that need to be fixed
I use GNU Stow to symlink many shell and configuration files from a repository. It works so well and there are many webpages out there from people telling you how it's the best way to manage dotfiles.
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Is it a good idea to backup my filesystem on github?
Gnu Stow
- Give Your Dotfiles a Home with GNU Stow
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
Too bad that's broken for directory names: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/33
What are some alternatives?
Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
rcm - rc file (dotfile) management
Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool
gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️