I usually connect with my server via ssh in a terminal and run basic commands. What’s a better, more efficient and modern way of doing that? Especially considering ai and documentation along the way? I wonder if there’s a better approach than “connect from remote and act local”. Is there a method to “code local and push to remote”?
I use a fedora server with podman, caddyfile and vi.
Ansible is great, I just wish it would automatically cleanup stuff on the server when I remove parts of the config. I know it’s not the goal, but I dream about a tool that works this way. I get many leftover stuff over years
We fixed that with roles that manage both install and uninstall
That works but that’s only useful if you have many machines. I have a single server so it’s the same burden as doing it manually. If only the uninstall step could be completely automated by just reverting the install step
To be fair to Ansible, that’s probably a packaging issue.
If the 1st run of an application creates a bunch of files and folders, then the packager won’t know about them and Ansible’s just relying on that.
But yeah, for 1 machine I’d find Ansible overkill (not a problem per se), but really helps when you have 5 Rasperry Pi Zeros scattered around the house 😉
Not quite, if you write the role to manage the life cycle of a bit of software then uninstall is part of that life cycle.
But I do see that investment in time looks more then just do it by hand