Papers & Presentations

Setting up a new laptop can be disorienting. It's easy to forget all the little configuration tweaks that accumulated over time. With only a little work upfront, a configuration management system can turn those notes into executable documentation, making it easy to reproduce a heavily customized setup on other laptops down the line.

While there are several configuration management systems, I am going to focus on Ansible, because it's easy to set up locally. No experience with Ansible or other configuration management tools systems is assumed.