Wanted: configuration management system that doesn't use YAML or Jinja2; ideally doesn't require an interpreter (Python and Ruby dep management can ๐Ÿ–•๐Ÿป); slightly indifferent on agentless.
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propellor? *hides*
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Code should be readable. Haskell has even more line noise than Perl :P
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booooo :D
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Speaking of which, rexify.org/ is _almost_ tempting.
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I've kinda got used to ansible for now, though I'd be semi-tempted by a system which used a pure language to define things like nix does.
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Ansible is... _OK_... but whenever I try and do something even vaguely tricky with it it annoys me. Also Jinja2, bleh. We use Salt at work and most of us are completely fed up with YAML+Jinja2.
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Mmm, I wonder if someone might do something using the language behind Bazel (Starlark) which is a python subset designed to do pure computation.
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That could be interesting. Even Puppet's DSL isn't _that_ horrendous, but Ruby.
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Replying to @jogbert
My rule is "if it's not data, it's not data" -- i.e. I don't want a turing complete language configuring my servers. It's one reason I quite like the idea of nix, just not necessarily the implementation.

Jun 20, 2020 ยท 7:28 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
Mmm yeah. Nix is interesting but I don't like the language much. Plus the more interesting parts of the Nix ecosystem require you to run NixOS.