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Hi, I’m Taj Pelc. Building for the web and leading engineering teams for 15+ years.

Jan 25 • 1 min read

Automate everything


I've been going deeper into the rabbit hole of automation. Raycast with plugins has been fantastic.

I'm happy with the terraform infrastructure setup.

But something is missing.

I spin up Ubuntu servers weekly, but I can't take my environment with me when I ssh into a server.

No color output. Default fonts. Plain VIM. Disgusting.

I could put dotfiles into a git repo, but I want something more robust.

Then I remembered that I saw a repo from Jeff Geerling, who wrote several Ansible scripts for setting up everything from his Mac development environment, Docker, Postgres, and more.

So, I'm adapting that to my needs.

I wanna be able to spin up a new server and just say ... "Hey, automation! Configure it for me." And it does its thing.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Yours,


Hi, I’m Taj Pelc. Building for the web and leading engineering teams for 15+ years.


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