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Neat factor
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I installed it three nights ago.
It has a lot of neat
It has a lot of wtf
You start out, I want x, then you realize you want y, then you find out to get y, you need z. Then you put follow some instructions and defining unfree in one spot no longer works. Then you find out there are no safe facilities to deploy secrets and you'll have to make that anyway.
I don't hate it at all, but I'm slowly realizing it's not what I thought it was.
Still cool though.
Yeah, it's very much one of those "steep learning curve" distros, and requires a lot of background reading and perhaps a bit of functional programming knowledge.
For secrets storage, I've been using agenix, but you can probably get away with just putting the secrets as plain text files in
/var/secrets
or similar.