Show HN: Freckles – A Stdlib for Devops, and More
freckles.io
freckles.io
Let me introduce to you 'freckles', the dotfile-manager project that went a bit too far...
'freckles' is my take on 'Infrastructure as code', keeping the whole thing as nimble and flexible as possible. My main focus was on creating a very minimal interface, to make it approachable to non- (or not-yet-) devops/sys-admin folk. But also to allow for really simple integration into existing workflows and tools, and to be able to use it from every programming language.
Currently, 'freckles' uses Ansible as its only back-end, that will change in the future (I have plans for a shell back-end, as well as Terraform, Kubernetes, and a few others).
I chose Ansible because that way 'freckles' can re-use all of the existing Ansible modules and roles out there, and I figured that way it'll be useful straight away. Plus, I hope to have an easier time showing what I have in mind with 'freckles' if the technology behind it is familiar to at least a part of my target audience.
Currently it is in early beta stage, so expect some things that won't work. I did testing on Mac OS X, but since I don't own a Mac I expect more breakage there. Please let me know if you have issues! Also, there are still tidbits of documentation missing, and some navigational stuff doesn't work on mobile properly yet.
Anyway, I'd be interested what HackerNews thinks. Does the website make it clear what 'freckles' is and can do? Or should I spend more time on massaging my message, so to speak? Other feedback? Do you reckon it could be useful to whatever it is you do?
Cheers!