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I frequently wipe and install from scratch my Linux desktop and laptops. I've been spending more time recently working on setup scripts that automate as much of this as possible. Things like installing packages, setting up firewall, checking out code projects and installing dependencies. Currently this is mostly a bash script plus my dot-files, but I'm always looking for ways to improve this process.

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Ever since I completely tarnished my last linux install last fall I've been trying to adopt habits to fail safe my data and setup (mostly bash and choosing cloud storage for my data). I'd love to see those bash scripts if they are not too sensitive to your integrity/privacy.

Here's how far I've come: https://github.com/GustavHenning/usefulBash

I personally do this using SaltStack. The biggest gain from Bash scripts are that Salt stack are idempotents, meaning you can apply them several time and Salt will figure out by itself the states that need changes.

Chef, puppet or Ansible are also good options I heard.

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