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doit
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How do you deal with CI, project config, etc. falling out of sync across repos?
I like mage for Go and doit for Python.
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What’s with DevOps engineers using `make` of all things?
Some competitors - Rake (ruby) - Bake - Earthly - SCons - doit
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Show HN: Jeeves – A Pythonic Alternative to GNU Make
An alternative to Scons could be Doit (<https://pydoit.org/>), which if I remember correctly was built as a faster alternative to Scons. See also reasons of some users to prefer the later to other mentioned here: <https://pydoit.org/stories.html>.
- A Python powered task management and automation tool
- Makefile Tricks for Python Projects
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Write Posix Shell
If you code in Python, your probably should use the language as much as possible and avoid calling shell commands.
E.G:
- manipulate the file system with pathlib
- do hashes with hashlib
- zip with zipfile
- set error code with sys.exit
- use os.environ for env vars
- print to stderr with print(..., file=...)
- sometimes you'll need to install lib. Like, if you want to manipulate a git repo, instead of calling the git command, use gitpython (https://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
But if you don't feel like installing a too many libs, or just really want to call commands because you know them well, then the "sh" lib is going to make things smoother:
https://pypi.org/project/sh/
Also, enjoy the fact Python comes with argparse to parse script arguments (or if you feel like installing stuff, use typer). It sucks to do it in bash .
If what you need is more build oriented, like something to replace "make", then I would instead recommend "doit":
https://pydoit.org/
It's the only task runner that I haven't run away from yet.
Remember to always to everything in a venv. But you can have a giant venv for all the scripts, and just she-bang the venv python executable so that it's transparent. Things don't have to be difficult.
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Alternatives to Makefile for Python
I've been using Doit for a project which involves gathering together documents made up of multiple Markdown files and converting to multiple formats. It's really cool but has some irritations. It didn't end up being much simpler than Make for me. I'm interested in trying some of the alternatives people have posted.
- Just: A Command Runner
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I used Python to control a custom stop-motion animation drawing machine
The code for all of this is available here, and described in detail in my article. I'm particularly fan of doit for this type of project, and highly encourage everyone to check it out!
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Monorepo Build Tools
Instead, I use pydoit (which is basically a Python version of make). It's simple, flexible, and quite extensible. So, here's what I do with it:
(R)?ex
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Can oyu configure unattended upgrades on Gentoo?
Take a look at Rexify.
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Does anybody auto updates gentoo with cronjob
I manage a small home lab of Gentoo installations, which I manage using Rex, but I kick the process off manually (generally overnight).
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Replacement for Chef?
For something out of left field take a quick look at rex: https://www.rexify.org/.
- Ansible 2.13
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Testing is such a MAJOR headache! What strategies do you use to deal with it?
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "Rex"
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Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more
It is good at automating stuff, and has a pretty nice Rex framework for handling administration tasks: https://www.rexify.org/
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CPAN Release of TooMuchCode 0.17
Thanks to @ferki from project Rex!
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Perl 2020 retrospective
The Rex friendly automation framework celebrated its 4000th commit and its 10 years 🎉
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Are there any solutions like alternatives to docker, kubernetes, ansible, etc. which make large scale server deployment automated?
Rex can be an alternative to Ansible, but both are available for FreeBSD: https://www.rexify.org/
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Looking for material and ideals for rolling my own Containerization solution for OpenBSD
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.
What are some alternatives?
Invoke - Pythonic task management & command execution.
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.
Prefect - The easiest way to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale.
Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Joblib - Computing with Python functions.
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.
Slaughter
Task - A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go
CFEngine - CFEngine Community
TaskFlow - A library to complete workflows/tasks in HA manner. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua