[mattbillenstein]

Yeah, just prefer writing little cli tools in Python or something once the shell script gets too complex...

Sorta hate yaml drive config management and deployments sytems aka ansible, saltstack, etc; so ended up writing my own that's salt-like, but all python.

[khimaros]

or a middle path solution like https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra

[linsomniac]

A couple years ago I did some experimenting with applying Ansible ideas on a smaller scale (like a shell script rather than operating on fleets of machines). I started off with using YAML and some alternate syntaxes, because I was coming from ansible.

But then I decided I really kind of despise "programming" in YAML (conditionals and loops in particular). So I adapted Ansible ideas to Python, in particular: idempotent commands and notifications (commands triggered later, when another set of commands make a change; like restarting apache after making a bunch of config changes).

https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook?tab=readme-ov-file

[mattbillenstein]

Interesting, I built a whole rpc / file-server ala saltstack on top of something like this:

https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty

Been using this on a couple startups for a couple years, but it lacks polish in terms of user-friendliness.

Interesting how we came to some of the same types of things - like you have .notify() - I return a result object with a "changed" flag, etc.

[eduardoagarcia]

I really like python as well (definitely one of my weapons of choice for one-off scripts)