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I have a talk at a university coming up soon and I wanted to make sure the students at the talk could reproduce my setup as easily as possible.

Feedback, criticism, recommendations etc. all welcome.

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I really, really, really appreciate these types of posts. FWIW, I had to tweak things a tad but I got it running perfectly on my Debian 11 box :)

Thanks a ton! I had been thinking of doing something along these lines for ages, but I kept putting it off on the basis that e.g. making an Ansible `host: localhost` playbook would be the "right" way to do it. Eventually I realized I didn't want any of that -- I just wanted something (A) that made getting up and running with a brand new system as painless as possible and (B) would be very easy for other people to open up, read, and say "Yeah, this looks safe to run".

Great work on it!

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