Comment on How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?

Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

You’re doing fine.

After seeing someone at work burnout, I’ll offer this advice:

Find what you enjoy doing and do nothing more (today). Itch only 1 scratch at a time.

As an analogy - consider you’ve moved into a newly built house and have an empty garden. No-one would expect you to create that perfectly first time around. Esp. in 1 weekend. It needs time to grow. Some things will need cutting down, some things will need moving. Animals will crap on it.

I think you’re trying to make it perfect, first time around. Perhaps as a fear of doing it “wrong”.

There is no wrong, it’s all a learning experience, doing things good enough for now and improving / breaking things later.

Ensure you know how to backup your files (3-2-1 rule) and the rest doesn’t matter.

I’ve re-written my ansible scripts a few times, but over months and years as I’ve learned what works best for my system.

For example, I had 1 complete script for each device. I can wipe the device (get it back on the network) and rebuild with no effort…

… then I realised that most of the scripts had very similar parts to tweak SSH and other settings, so then I learned how to call scripts from within scripts, which also meant using variables (facts) to work out if this is a 32b or 64b RasPi (for example)

That probably took 3 months

But I enjoy sitting in my garden and looking at it…

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