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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
> When Munich did this it never got to a majority of their desktops, is my recollection, it maxed out in the 40%s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
> September 2006 — "Soft" migration begins.
> October 2013 — Over 15,000 LiMux PC-workstations (of about 18,000 workstations)
> December 2013 — Munich open-source switch was "completed successfully".
> September 2016 - Microsoft moves its German headquarters to Munich.
> November 2017 - The city council decided that LiMux will be replaced by a Windows-based infrastructure by the end of 2020. The costs for the migration are estimated to be around 90 million Euros.
> May 2020 - Newly elected politicians in Munich take a U-turn and implement a plan to go back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux.
They've still got a website up where they say some stuff about it, which itself is hosted MIT-licensed on GitHub with pretty regular commits:
> Our strategic guidelines also provide for this:
> > If economically and technologically or strategically sensible, LHM prioritizes the use of open source solutions, in particular to avoid company dependencies. LHM pursues this approach in both the application and infrastructure areas.
https://opensource.muenchen.de/use.html
https://github.com/it-at-m/opensource.muenchen.de/commits/ma...
Well, it's not just about "FOSS" or whatever, is it? As a German state, you're better off not relying on making payments to a North American company.
LibreOffice specifically was indeed decommissioned eventually in Munich (just within the last couple months!), though:
> LibreOffice was used as an office package as part of Limux until the end of 2023.
CFEngine
- German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
- 2023 Development Tool Map
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Replacement for Chef?
Another oldie but goodie is cfengine: https://cfengine.com/
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What does everyone use for automating setting up a new VPS?
I'm using rudder (https://www.rudder.io/), it's based on cfengine (https://cfengine.com/). But this is more enterprise ready, you'll be fine with lightweight ansible. Nice thing is, that rudder ensures compliance by periodically executing all defined rules on all endpoints.
What are some alternatives?
typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Pallet - Automates controlling and provisioning cloud server instances. DevOps for the JVM.
Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework
gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Slaughter
mgmt - Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
homeshick - git dotfiles synchronizer written in bash