What if your development setup was automated?

We are used to automating provisioning and configuration of servers, but many of us never automated anything regarding our own development machines. Things like editor/IDE settings synchronization, reusing dot files on different machines, or installing packages.

Ansible is a well known cross-platform automation tool for configuring computers. And I think it is a good fit for automating development machines as well. In fact, I wrote an article about just that: How to automatically set up a development machine with Ansible.

Go check it out! You might get inspired to automate something today.

Until next time,

Petr