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Work · May 13, 2023

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Spot, Simplifying DevOps Automation

I just released the first stable version of a new tool called "Spot" (also known as simplotask). As someone who has had to deal with the frustration of broken Ansible dependencies and the endless googling required to add even the most trivial elements to playbooks, I decided to create a tool that simplifies these tasks. That's how Spot was born - a simple yet flexible tool for automating deployment tasks.

Spot, Simplifying DevOps Automation launched on May 13, 2023 with 7 votes, #1,883 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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