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(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?
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.
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
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
CFEngine - CFEngine Community
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua
rcm - rc file (dotfile) management
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches