Ansika – One-Line Installers for Smooth Employee Onboarding

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Hello HN, This is a little 2-week-long project figuring out how to build binary distributions out of Ansible playbooks. My team noticed that new dev/intern onboarding was taking quite a bit of senior engineer energy, in getting "similar" setups (not necessarily identical setups). So, we looked into building super-simple one-line software installers, and decided to use Nuitka to bundle Ansible playbooks. We've written a detailed blog-post on how it works as well [1] I'm quite pleased with the results personally, since the binary installer is a hit within our team, already saving many hours during employee onboarding. Please take a look, and let me know your thoughts, and whether this could be modified to be more useful to anyone. [1]: https://journal.hexmos.com/ansika/

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