Juno TakanoJul 6, 2024

Introducing tori, a tool to track your system's configuration and replicate it.

I've been simultaneously using and developing it personally for the past 5 months, and now I would like to teach it to fly so it can break out from our nest.

This version still has very few of the features I enjoy in my personally-hardcoded version. If it sounds interesting, just stay tuned.

I wrote a blog post with a more in-depth description of what it is, how it works and why I built it:

https://blog.jutty.dev/posts/introducing-tori.html

#OperatingSystems #portability #SysAdmin #shell #POSIX #ash #BSD #FreeBSD #Linux #VoidLinux #Debian #ConfigurationManagement

Introducing tori • jutty.dev

Show threadthe_enidJul 6, 2024
@jutty ahoi! This really looks like a fun project. I saw your rationale on reinventing the wheel and wanted to ask if you had special considerations regarding Ansible.
I know, „i wanted to do this“ trumps everything, still I’m curious
Show threadJuno TakanoJul 6, 2024

@the_enid Ansible is very powerful and I don't know very much about it, but I guess I wanted to build something more minimal and local, meant for managing your personal machines.

For this use case, I guess also prefer having simple function calls over nesting YAML with indentation, not my favorite format due to having poor readability.

Show threadAlessio 
@jutty @the_enid I think there’s still a lot to research about alternatives to Ansible especially coming to this space, I was thinking about writing something similar these days, maybe I’ll just give a shot to tori 😬
Jul 6, 2024 at 8:43pmWeb
Show threadJuno TakanoJul 6, 2024
@dottorblaster It's still a hatchling, but I hope you stay around to see it growing!