Chezmoi – Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely

1. chezmoi

   1 60 15,415 9.8 Go

   Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

   

   > That this is even suggested as an installation command means that they might as well strike "securely" from the tagline. For someone interested in security the foul odor that this line emits is enough to make me stop reading.

   I don't know. I always think this line smacks of paternalism. For instance, plenty of projects suggest for installation something like:

     git clone https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/; cd chezmoi; make; sudo make install

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3. nix

   2 413 14,709 10.0 C++

   Nix, the purely functional package manager

   

   I use Nix [1] (package manager) to handle my configurations over different systems. There is a somewhat steep learning curve, but it is perfect for my use-cases.

   [1]: https://nixos.org

4. yadm

   3 85 5,800 8.2 Python

   Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

   

   That's why I use https://yadm.io

   It's basically a helper for a bare git repository plus some added features.

5. ansible-setup-example

   4 1 2 0.0 Shell

   

   Unfortunately, I can't share it "as is", as it has grown a lot over the years and contains a lot of information about my home and work network topology and setups. (I host it on a private git server)

   I copied some of it into an example repository to showcase the structure and left the playbook.yaml intact for reference. You can find it on: https://github.com/cybrox/ansible-setup-example

   I don't want to claim that this structure is in any way better or worse than anything else, it's just one that works for me. There's a lot of discussion on how Ansible projects should be structured. This allows me to simply run `WORKSTATION=home DESKTOP=wayland ansible-playbook playbook.yaml` on a fresh Arch Linux install and everything is ready to go.

   For maintaining the repository, I got used to changing things in there and deploying them instead of changing dotfiles directly. However, I do also deploy a bash script to copy all the files from the system back to the repo to catch dotfile edits I did hastily at 3am.

   An example of dotfiles being deployed with this approach is roles/shell/tasks/zsh.yaml

6. dotfiles

   5 1 8 6.4 Shell

   My personal dotfiles (by shepherdjerred)

   

   Chezmoi is great. I've used it to manage my dotfiles[0] for many years now. It integrates with my password manager (1Password), so my secrets are stored in something I already use. It uses Go templates which is a good thing to know nowadays since it seems that many tools are using that.

   [0]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/dotfiles

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