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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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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Terraform and ansible. Script service configuration and use source control. Containerize services where possible to make them system agnostic.

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How do you decide what's for Terraform and what's for Ansible?

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

They're good at different things.

Terraform is better at "here is a configuration file - make my infrastructure look like it" and Ansible is better at "do these things on these servers".

In my case I use Terraform to create proxmox VMs and then Ansible provisions and configures software on those VMs.