Life & fun · December 22, 2017
Buildfiles (as opposed to dotfiles) Provision your Debian with Ansible
Buildfiles: Ansible automated leight-weight and sensible Debian provisioning - cytopia/ansible-debian
Buildfiles (as opposed to dotfiles) Provision your Debian with Ansible launched on December 22, 2017 with 11 votes, #860 of 2,482 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Buildfiles is an Ansible-based provisioning tool for Debian systems. It automates the setup and configuration of Debian machines by treating infrastructure as code, similar to how dotfiles manage configuration files. The tool is designed for system administrators and developers who want to version control and reproducibly deploy their Debian environments using Ansible playbooks.
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