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Something like puppet, for the localhost only.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2020-04-06 · latest 2022-02-03

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  1. …and running commands. Despite the minimalism it turned out to be more useful than expected: https://github.com/skx/marionette/ I added extra things, such as the ability to pull docker containers, and clone git repositories, and despite…
  2. …by puppet more than anything, but since it runs locally it is perhaps comparable to ansible too: https://github.com/skx/marionette/ It turns out that three operations suffice for almost 90% of my needs: * Populate a file, from a template…
    comment by stevekemp · 2021-05-20 · in Ansible 4.0
  3. …with a simple puppet-alike, written in golang, called marionette (in hindsight a terrible name): https://github.com/skx/marionette/ It isn't anywhere near as complex, or featureful, but starting with golden AMIs it allows the necessary…
    comment by stevekemp · 2020-09-08 · in Chef to be acquired by Progress
  4. I mentioned it above already, but I've been experimenting with an agentless puppet-lite: https://github.com/skx/marionette/ Early days, but the primitives are enough to do useful things on my own systems..
  5. …on a localhost-only system for automation myself, inspired by puppet but with far fewer modules: https://github.com/skx/marionette/ As of this week it can now pull down docker-images from dockhub, which was something I'd been needing to…
  6. …in a simple and consistent fashion, ideally without using a complete language (i.e. puppet/ruby): https://github.com/skx/marionette/ The problem with the simpler approach is that they do only basic things, to support "everything" means…
    comment by stevekemp · 2020-06-13 · in Ansible Alternatives in Python
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    Show HN: Proof of concept server-configuration application
    story by stevekemp · 2020-04-08 · 0 comments
  8. …"no". But I kinda like the existing implementation, and being go it is trivial to install/deploy. https://github.com/skx/marionette/
    comment by stevekemp · 2020-04-06 · in Ask HN: What are you learning?