Dotfiles
How much time do you need to re-create your current workstation?
6 days enough?
Real question
what are dotfiles?
A dot-file is generally any file whose name begins with a full stop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-file
Ansible
Why and what
Pros
- re-create in a short time
- deprecation changes as an opportunity to learn about them
- a simple audit of installed software and config changes
- share, learn, inspire
Cons
- single change takes more time
- deprecation changes as a problem to solve on system upgrades
- you have to be careful to not expose sensitive data
possible inspirations
- Editor configuration
- Prompt configuration
- Backups (ssh & PGP keys!)
- SSH config
- Gnome config
- Used software
re-creation as a habit?
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html
The primary advantage of using phoenix servers is to avoid configuration drift: ad hoc changes to a systems configuration that go unrecorded.
Nixos
NixOS has a completely declarative approach to configuration management: you write a specification of the desired configuration of your system in NixOS’s modular language, and NixOS takes care of making it happen.
https://nixos.org/
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/index.html
https://knpuniversity.com/screencast/ansible/
http://hakunin.com/six-ansible-practices
http://www.nickhammond.com/automating-development-environment-ansible/
Learn you an ANSIBLE for great good!
Questions?
Dotfiles
By Jan Dudulski
