"Wanna just use fucking shell scripts to configure a server? Read on!"
Step 0: Install the gem
# gem install fucking_shell_scripts
# gem: command not found
"Wanna just use fucking shell scripts to configure a server? Read on!"
Step 0: Install the gem
# gem install fucking_shell_scripts
# gem: command not found
If I want to use FSS to configure the server, I already do. I don't need the "latest fad in configuration tool" to do something FSSs already do!
Like fabric. If you're not using their advanced features, you're writing a shell script in python.
Thanks, I'll write a shell script
If somebody created a list of requirements for the perfect language for doing CM it would probably be similar to:
- Always available on every machine
- Proven reliable and stable
- Built to interface with the OS and other utilities
Hmm, that sounds a lot like the shell. If your application doesn't already depend on Ruby, bringing Ruby in as a dependency, is a lot of extra overhead. There is something to be said about this concept, but it should be shell all the way down.
_brilliant_ !
If someone doesn't already have Chef installed, why would they even have clicked on this link?
* Depends on Ruby.