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• ccgx@digitalcourage.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thanks for all the input. I'm still overwhelmed with all the options. Since these where mostly mentioned, I'll try Ansible, Terraform (then with OpenTofu?!), and risk a look at NixOS. For the record, I want to mostly manage physical machines

  @homelab @homelab_de

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• firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  @ccgx @homelab @homelab_de

  I've used Ansible and Saltstack professionally and of the two, I think Ansible is less complicated to learn and use.

  But I haven't used Chef, Puppet, or Nix and I have limited experience with Terraform so I can't give a useful comparison.

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• Lehmanator@fosstodon.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  @ccgx @homelab @homelab_de Ansible is torture as your infra gains complexity. Would recommend NixOS with Terraform via Terranix. You can declare all your containers in NixOS or use whatever container management tools you want.

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