Hello, On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 08:05:28AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > For a single user's machine, it's unlikely to be rewarding > except intellectually.
It is however a great way to document a system for those that don't get around to making free text notes. The language of the configuration management tool both does the setup and documents what needs to be done. This is useful even for a single human, but if you have multiple people working on things then there is some value in all of them learning how to read the domain-specific language of the chosen config management tool (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, etc.) vs. everyone making their own notes in their own style. That covers the "what"; generally more documentation is needed for the "why", but even if it never comes the things in the config management are better than nothing. There have honestly been times in my life where I've had to look at something set up by someone who's no longer around (or by me, a decade previous!) and with only the things in config management I've been able to work out which pieces the service is composed of, and just that's been a God send and a bigger win than the automated nature of the setup which is the thing people usually praise config management for! Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
