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I’m self hosting things, and if I don’t write things down I don’t remember how to do them. So far I’ve been relying on Obsidian for my docs, but I’m really tempted to go with @atuin desktop.
No BS playbooks you can run (so playbooks you keep updated), and that you can store on git? Open source and free? No AI?! It’s almost too good to be true!
@thibaultamartin for this use case I use #orgmode files with org babel shell blocks. It's more of a general purpose tool (or language, or format... however you want to see it), but it's absolutely adapted for this! And since it's just plain text in the end, it's perfect for version control as well.
That sounds like a very streamlined approach. I like how it emphasizes keeping docs updated and version-controlled without overcomplicating things.
@thibaultamartin another route could be to use something like Ansible and version playbooks you can run. It may not fit your use case though.
@Crocmagnon I rely on ansible heavily already, including using dynamic inventory for Promox :)
But you still need someone to invoke the playbook, and I’m the type of person who needs that documented too 😄
@thibaultamartin oh got it 👍🏻 yeah absolutely! In these cases I tend to use a makefile* or a bash script but atuin looks cool too!
* I have some kind of love hate relationship with GNU make because the syntax is horrendous and full of gotchas but at least it’s mostly available everywhere. Whenever I have something more complex than a one-liner, I create a shell script and usually add a make target to make it discoverable.
@thibaultamartin I’d like to invest some time in learning something like ˋjust`, or ˋmiseˋ which I already use for env and tools installation.
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