I did this manually for a while with a reminder every 3 months but now it happens automagically with a cron job on my server as well and now I'm similarly at risk of forgetting how it worked in the first place
> now I'm similarly at risk of forgetting how it worked in the first place
I once met a person at a client org who was generally opposed to automation due to risks of forgetting how things work and not always knowing what the internals behind those abstractions are. It was an interesting take.
At the same time, something like Ansible and other methods of automation can be pretty useful and actually aid in documenting things.
It's especially good if you can spare 10% of your time to put some notes down in Markdown files in a Git repo, or source/deploy most of your automation scripts from there as well.
I once met a person at a client org who was generally opposed to automation due to risks of forgetting how things work and not always knowing what the internals behind those abstractions are. It was an interesting take.
At the same time, something like Ansible and other methods of automation can be pretty useful and actually aid in documenting things.
It's especially good if you can spare 10% of your time to put some notes down in Markdown files in a Git repo, or source/deploy most of your automation scripts from there as well.