I have a few VMs and PMs around the house that I’d setup over time and I’d now like to rebuild some, not to mention just simplify the whole lot.
How the hell do I get from a working system to an equivalent ansible playbook without many (MANY) iterations of trial & error - and potentially destroying the running system??
Ducking around didn’t really show much so I’m either missing a concept / keyword, or, no-one does this.
Pointers?
TIA
Yeah… notes… they started about 50% of the way through building the system.
Now, my notes are great, but some of these devices are ~10 years old.
But, yep, I totally agree, notes are a damn good thing to have.
Not thought about bash history though, interesting point, but I think that only goes back a short duration?
@Cyber Yeah the bash defaults are incredibly limited by default, something like 1000 entries, 2000 bytes. I always make those something like 100,000 and 1MB. So the defaults can definitely bite you on an existing system, it may not have stored every command.
https://superuser.com/a/664061