Aviary.sh

This looks really promising. I've been wanting a very lightweight solution for this which runs on a single host (no need for another host just to run the scripts) and pulls its…

Really neat. I still need to evaluate it more, but this is the kind of thing I've looking for for small infrastucture that isn't likely to grow (like home services or small…

Very nice! Ansible can be a little heavyweight for some of the things that me and a lot of people do. I'll definitely be taking a look at this.

Here you go! Yeah, I've used a bunch of CM tools over the years, and it always seems like you're learning a DSL of one sort or another, just to have it translate into the bash…

Bash just use bash ! Nothing new to learn for developers or to debug. Ok i'm ready for my down-votes...

I'm not sure if I am understanding this (aviary.sh) correctly, but it looks like this requires an agent to run on the configured hosts. One of the things that I love about…

Ansible is agentless tho. That's a pretty big difference.

Unfortunately all I could think of was "that sounds cool but I'd want to stick to dash instead of bash" Also didn't realize it wasn't agentless which is pretty critical imo

> bash is just fine (yes, it is) No, it's not. It's 2020, we need to stop it with the stringly-typed, footgun-filled madness that is bash scripting. We deserve better than this.…

When I open `av` in vim, shellcheck spits out 167 warnings. This is not written robustly.

> Installation > curl https://aviary.sh/install | sudo bash I would really try to avoid this, especially when it's targeted for sysadmins ( I guess DevOps nowadays ). What's the…

Looked good but I needed to leave the site after seeing they suggested doing curl https://aviary.sh/install | sudo bash

I don't care what language or paradigm the tool is written with, Configuration Management tools are evil and should be avoided at all costs. I would literally rather maintain a…

> Install from the command line, on a box to be managed by aviary.sh: It would be even cooler if I didn't need to do anything to do the box besides install openssh-server. I…

I'm all for trying simpler approaches and have written some tooling in bash myself, but at this point Python is pre-installed on many servers like bash is, a large benefit of…

How is this idempotent? ``` cat <<EOF > /etc/motd "Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now." --Bob Ross EOF ```

Currently I do a fresh install of Ubuntu every time I do new work (every 6months). Normally I spend about 6 hours getting my machine configured up (installing softwarem…

Ansible is agentless tho. That's a pretty big difference.

I'm all for trying simpler approaches and have written some tooling in bash myself, but at this point Python is pre-installed on many servers like bash is, a large benefit of…

If you like this - Fabric is awesome. https://www.fabfile.org/ Use python over SSH. Super fast to begin, if you can ssh into the server, you can run the equivalent of shell…

it requires an agent, so it's a tiny Bash alternative to Puppet, but that doesn't sound remotely as cool

Wow, perfect timing. I was just looking for something like this. I haven't looked at it too in-depth yet, but the design goals align with what I want. Minimal configuration…