Comment on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot?
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 2 days agoOne of my earlier deployment plans had me using Ansible, then a bot aided revision had me remove it since I’m doing a single machine install and a fairly straightforward process. From my understanding I’ll get a better learning experience not using it so I figured that was better.
BuckFutter@timeyak.com 2 days ago
Yah i had never used it either, alot of the tutorials I found suggested it, and what threw me for a loop and was the ultimate Aha! moment for me was there is an ansible version and a non ansible version for the docker configs with different options in each, and the ultimate key thing I overlooked is on github, I kept using the “main” development branch which had changes that didn’t work with the stable .19 version. Switching to the .19 branch on GitHub and referencing those configs made it all click