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I am working on setting up a home server but I want it to be reproducible if I need to make large changes, switch out hardware, or restore from a failure. What do you use to handle this?

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[โ€“] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Terraform and Puppet. Not very simple to get into, but extremely powerful and reliable.

[โ€“] 4am@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

I was getting into a similar form with Terraform (well, OpenTOFU now) and Ansible before I had to pack up my homelab about a year ago. New place needs electrical work before I can fire it back up.

How is Puppet to work with?