I’ve worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
I’ve worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
Not op but I’ve moved on to nixos, or I use nix for managing the home folder on Ubuntu / Darwin machines.
Disclaimer: I’m a software dev not a sys admin, though I manage a number of machines for dev and home lab stuff.
After the high learning curve, its so much easier keeping my systems in sync.
Super easy to rollback on a bad upgrade.
Everything has its quirks. It’s quite hard to manage secrets in Nix without dropping them to nix store. Sops-nix is probably closest to ansible-vault, but I’ve yet to see some good solution for short lived secrets. (For example secrets that are only needed to deploy something but not to run it)
Nixos is great, but unfortunately I can’t use it at work. I have migrated my home server infra to it though and plan to migrate my desktop the next time I have a free evening.