Post #3989003

2026-07-18 19:41 UTC

@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange fully endorse. But fwiw I think stage 1 for a lot of people might be to just write a short list for themselves to follow. This isn't my current, but it illustrates. Solutions should match the problem space though, and if manual systems get too long or too complicated, it's time to automate. Maybe that's just a bash script, or maybe it's ansible.

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@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange 2026-07-21 15:24

@buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social Yes! Exactly! For quite awhile, I just did an `apt list` and emailed it to myself. But then I was thinking about the trade-offs between Ansible (great, but I'm lazy) and Bash (fast and practical, but costly to maintain) and I realized I could write something weird to split the difference. I've used this weird little script enough times, I don't hate it. I've been thinking a next step may be to try to update it to a self contained portable Python app, and package that for apt install...

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@buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 19:54

@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange probably the biggest gap is between people who just run their systems and modify them later, and those they know they are establishing methods of any kind

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