[atoav]

For my use cases I found that just having a (updated) note with the things I would usually do works best. This is because I would not deploy everything anywhere and manually being aware of each step instead of hiding it within a script is somewhat a feature (e.g. you can easily insert a custom extra step etc).

If I would do basically the same over and over I'd probably go with a script, ansible cookbook or similar, but as of now the manual route is totally fine.

[ranger207]

Yeah I just have a note with my steps because other than the real basic stuff (set IP and DNS, set hostname, install tmux/htop/vim) the rest depends on what exactly I'm doing with that server. I have other notes for common stuff that could probably stand to be automated but it's not worth the effort in a https://xkcd.com/1205/ sense. Like, having a checklist is necessary, but fighting bash or whatever other automation tool isn't necessarily valuable since I'm only standing up one server every few months at most