For me it’s: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Anything that needs to be configured with YAML, and Kubernetes in particular.

    I mean I get the whole Infrastructure as Code hype (although I have never witnessed or heard of a situation where an entire cluster needed to be revived from scratch), but it should be very possible to make a gui that writes the YAML for you.

    I don’t want to memorize every possible setting and what it does and if someone makes a typo in the config (or in the white space, as it’s YAML) everything is borked.

    Call me old-fashioned but the graphical ui of something like octopus deploy was a thousand times more user friendly imho.

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      3 months ago

      That UI is called VSCode

      At the top of your .yaml file, you can set a JSON Schema. Example:

      # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://json.schemastore.org/prometheus.json
      
      scrape_configs:
        - job_name: caddy
          static_configs:
            - targets:
                - caddy:2019
      

      This way, you don’t have to memorize every possible setting and what it does and risk making a typo in the config. VSCode will just tell you.

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      3 months ago

      I think it’s easy to make a generic YAML editor that all you need to do is to pass a “definitions” file that says all the possible options to show as a drop down or toggle etc.

      That would be useful for many projects.

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      3 months ago

      I think infrastructure as code is best utilized when paired with software testing and rapid deployment. It allows for a kind of granularity manual configuration doesn’t give you

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      3 months ago

      A few IDEs already provide some help with YAML. Rider will tell you if you’ve screwed up the YAML for a GitHub Actions workflow, and possibly docker-compose as well