dotdrop VS ansible

Oh! You should also check out dotdrop too! 😂

I use dotdrop

I am currently using AstroNvim config and I like it. I use dotdrop for backing up my dotfiles. I would like to backup my AstroNvim config to my dotfiles. Here is the current directory structure of my ~/.config/nvim:

dotdrop – Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere

There are so many solutions to this problem. dotdrop works really well. GNU Stow is a thing too. I use dotdrop because it supports the concept of profiles for different machines, and you can use Jinja2 template logic in your configs.

I use Dotdrop, it fits for me, but there are a lot of different options. At Chezmoi site there is a good comparison table.

Nice! For dotfiles and stuff, I use a helpful program called dotdrop, which allows you to create configs for different machines and all your dotfiles will just be magically symlinked to where you want them.

I like dotdrop. Mainly because I have multiple machines and dotdrop can do templating, so I can more granularly control what goes into each of my machines.

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