@darph writes here. Rarely. R(?)ex on OS X February 10, 2016 Holy Complete And Utter Lack Of Updates, Batman!
I've started using R(?)ex to manage a couple of servers that I maintain. R(?)ex ( R emote EX ecution) is a "Deployment & Configuration Management" tool, similar to Puppet, Chef, Ansible or Salt, but written in Perl. I like it, because it is an extremely simple, yet powerful tool. There's no daemon or external server required, no YAML-based DSL to fight and no extensive dependencies to install - every distribution that I had to touch had Perl. A few optional dependencies (crypto-libraries to generate passwor
The fact that Perl is syntactically close to Ruby is also helpful (you just keep adding dollars and semicolons until it works). And it's just code.