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> One thing that I have yet to explore (but I’d like to) is to use a tool like Chef to set up my personal machine, so that I can periodically wipe everything and re-build from scratch.

I'm in the same boat. Does anyone know a good tutorial to learn how to do this with Chef or Puppet? I don't have much of an interested in learning the tools, I just want to set it up and forget it (and occasionally update it).

Do people make their Chef/Puppet configuration files public (e.g. on GitHub) just like they do with their dotfiles?



Not chef or puppet, but Eivind Uggedal published the saltstack states for his personal archlinux machines: https://github.com/uggedal/states

I plan to do the same for my debian setups, but i am not there yet.




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