Top 6 Shell Configuration Management Projects

homeshick

8 2,039 0.0 Shell

git dotfiles synchronizer written in bash

Project mention: Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

I have a work mac, work linux, and home mac. I want the same terminal-based development environment on all of them, but each requires just a little bit of customization.
For example, the .gitconfig for work is different from home (e.g. my username/email). Ditto for my .ssh/config and my shell aliases.
I also use Nix to manage all my tools, and the home-manager configuration is slightly different between mac & linux due to platform support.
I've gone through a few iterations of home-built solutions, including extending homeshick[1], before discovering YADM which implemented everything I had done but better.
[1] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

aconfmgr

28 1,041 7.3 Shell

A configuration manager for Arch Linux

Project mention: Arch noob | /r/archlinux | 2023-06-03

Establishing a backup strategy. I'm using BTRFS with snapper and a pacman hook that creates a new snapshot before each upgrade. With ext4 I used timeshift. Besides that, I save my arch configuration with aconfmgr and my files with borg

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docker-salt-master

2 76 8.4 Shell

🐳🧂 Dockerized Salt Master
rocinante

1 50 0.0 Shell

Rosinante is lightweight configuration management software.

Project mention: Jails on FreeBSD | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-26

https://github.com/BastilleBSD/rocinante
Another new kid on the block for jails is AppJail, it has some interesting features. I have not played with it enough to say how stable it is.

loco.sh

6 43 7.9 Shell

Loco.sh, local configuration manager

Project mention: Loco.sh: program your env | /r/bash | 2023-05-16

rrconf

1 12 5.1 Shell

Require/Replay Config

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).