so, i decided that i have enough machines that config management would be a good idea.

i’ve decided on ansible as it has a low barrier to entry.. this may work against me later.

so my first project was to create a debian mirror. a playbook to spin up a machine from a fresh netinst install. it almost went well, the next step was to discover that there are a couple of bugs in the program i was trying to set up. apt-mirror and bug 2 the question is, do i build a patch into ansible, or wait for the package to be fixed.

in the mean time while i decide, at least i will note the fix down.

this might be useful

this gets me a local mirror, and almost a place to launch from. a slight tweak to the netinst cd will build me a base and everything operates internally.

now i need not care about bandwidth for the repeat machine builds it will take to set up ansible build scripts from scratch

so,yeah