Hey everyone, the very first release of #OpenVox has been released! It’s a drop in replacement for #Puppet and is ready for initial evaluation. Here’s a link to the blog post with more details via #HackerNews in hopes you’ll help vote it is so that even more people know what #VoxPupuli has accomplished 
Automated deployments of #FreeBSD in #Proxmox clusters can be very easy! My #howto guides your through this process by using #ProxLB, #Ansible and #terraform
#homelab #virtualization #automation #configmgmt
https://gyptazy.com/howto-automated-deployment-of-freebsd-vms-in-proxmox-with-proxlb-and-terraform/
I'm genuinely proud to have just finished and published a marquee piece that explains how #CUE makes handling #configuration so much nicer!
It's here, on the main #cuelang site: https://cuelang.org/docs/concept/how-cue-enables-configuration/
If, like me, you really dislike hand-wrangling #YAML and #JSON then please do have a read -- and let me what you think
I only learned properly a couple of weeks back about how elegant #CUE's multi-for-loop construct is!
Because in #ConfigMgmt land we're /so/ often dealing with spiky, nested objects, the nested "for" loop has a lovely indent-saving form: here, the loop starting on L37 incorporates 3 for elements, 1 "if" guard, & 1 additional temporary allocation ("let"), whilst letting me iterate over the /innermost/ elements of a (resource|data).<level1>.<level2> shaped struct 
#cuelang is genuinely awesome!
![A CUE multi-value for loop with the following line number prefixes and code:
37 for entity in [ "resource”, "data']
38 if configuration[entity] != _|_
39 for entity_type, entities in configuration[entity]
40 for entity_name, entity_config in entities
41 let new_name = {#Renamer & {#In: entity_name}}.#0ut {
42 (entity): (entity_type): (new_name): entity_config
43 }](https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/110/464/380/660/429/613/original/15fff1fc8118b895.png "A CUE multi-value for loop with the following line number prefixes and code:
37 for entity in [ \"resource”, \"data']
38 if configuration[entity] != _|_
39 for entity_type, entities in configuration[entity]
40 for entity_name, entity_config in entities
41 let new_name = {#Renamer & {#In: entity_name}}.#0ut {
42 (entity): (entity_type): (new_name): entity_config
43 }")
A #Terraform #IaC #ConfigMgmt straw poll for you:
I need to inject some kind of side-effect-free marker into some (many!) TF config expressions/interpolations.
All 4 of the following 1-line options work, with no performance difference between them.
Please help me by selecting any/all that, if you saw them in a (.tf.json) config, you feel *wouldn't* confuse or annoy you ...
