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I would like to have a mechanism to set up a server automagically…
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What I mean is that repeatability can be achieved in other, simpler ways. Like a package for example.
I feel like as technologies, ansible and docker have been spread beyond their relevant scope of usefulness. But maybe that's me.
I feel like ansible is a complex way of doing simple things.
Packages seem like a very convoluted way to achieve something like setting a host name or configuring the DNS server a system uses or the packages that are installed or which virtual hosts a web server serves and which certificates it uses to do so.