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We consider enabling graceful bootstrapping as one of our main guiding principles around Rex, the friendly automation framework.

While our “How to get started with Rex” page provides a good initial set of concepts, I wondered about the minimal set of features that already proves useful in practice. I find this especially interesting when using Rex from a cronjob or in a CI/CD pipeline.

Let’s see what I found through this exercise in minimalism: https://blog.ferki.it/2025/03/21/minimum-viable-rex/