shutitfile

Thanks, and well put. Here's some things I've done (with the entire framework also - the OP is the simplified 'standalone' version): - Developed the 'ShutItFile', eg: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/clustered-vm-t... see also: https://github.com/ianmiell/shutitfile - Built a distro from scratch (using linux from scratch), with eerything automated: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/make-your-own-... also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGp16yvSrFE - Put a 15-year old software stack into a container, saving enormous sums in dev costs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVUPmmUU3yY&t=16s - Developed a 'training' tool: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/linux-scales/ see also: https://asciinema.org/a/32807?t=70 https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/interactive-gi... - Automated the testing of the

The linked-to page offers some examples, eg its use as a teaching tool. I'm also building on ShutIt to create a really stupid-simple automation language based on Dockerfiles: https://github.com/ianmiell/shutitfile

Author here. Quite surprised to see this. Another related tool I'm working on is: https://github.com/ianmiell/shutitfile Why this over Ansible? It's a long story :) Mainly because not everyone is a great or even decent programmer, so I wanted an easy way in for them for the situation I was in. Hence automation for everyone. But I don't think this is a serious competitor for Ansible. Happy to answer questions as they arise.

More info: https://github.com/ianmiell/shutitfile/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/ianmiell/shutitfile/blob/master/CheatShee... http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/