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toomuchtodo on March 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough

> Just because shell scripts can do a lot of heavy lifting, doesn't mean they should.

Knowing Python or Ruby doesn't mean you should write every system administration task around it.

Who writes testing around 50-100 line shell scripts?

eropple on March 12, 2014 [–]

I do. I've started using chefspec specifically because I want to ensure that combinatoric functionality outputs the results I expect and want.

toomuchtodo on March 12, 2014 | [–]

You're an outlier.

eropple on March 13, 2014 | | [–]

Me being an outlier doesn't make the lol-tests approach any brighter.

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