This is interesting. I unfortunately don't have the deep understanding of everyone contributing to this topic, but i'm taking it onboard as best I can.

I'd really throw effort into learning Ansible (at cursory glance it made more sense to me than Salt), if I could use it the manner I think @scottalanmiller is describing. I'm currently using different tools to wrangle our small fleet of devices into some sort of order. This is mostly MDM suite(s) and exploiting the Windows 10 PC options - but no server config management tools utilised as such (I have only a few, so return on potential time invested in Ansible, is very minimal).

JumpCloud has command runners for Linux, Windows and Mac..... I've been using it for Chocolatey and Powershell stuff on PCs (on and off LAN). There's an agent installed on your endpoint obviously.

@scottalanmiller These are intended for Pi-hole use, so the extra horsepower isn't needed.... just craptacular timing ( compounded by the rpi3's sticker price dropping at the vendor )

I really need to read the news more....... I took delivery of 4 rpi3's last week

WoeUSB is the only convenient way I've been able to make bootable (UEFI) USB Windows medium. Usually purge all the partitions on the USB device prior, using Gnome Disks application.

I use Gnome Disks application - restore (or DD), for Linux

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@black3dynamite actually just consuming some coffee while reading through the AppGet docs

@black3dynamite so it's appended the version at the time of manifest creation (even though the default Tag of "latest" would mean it pulls the latest version)?

As part of my effort to streamline recreation of my daily driver Windows box, I've been looking at posts from various Developers using Windows 10, detailing their environment configuration. They generally have pretty extensive application / package dependencies so it seemed like a good source of tips and strategies.

I stumbled across mentions of Scoop and AppGet. I'd heard of Scoop, it was on my radar, but AppGet, I've no knowledge of. It uses YAML for manifests (which are open source and stored in GitHub). Seems to be a decent (and current) list of Packages.

I do use Chocolatey on my PC and for helping patch the Windows PCs at work, but it's not been super smooth sailing.

Anyone spent any time using AppGet?

Update - Developer manifesto AppGet, What Chocolatey wasn’t

@scottalanmiller these discussions echo my thoughts exactly. I'm only (hesitantly) learning Docker now, but it feels like it's not a long term answer(I'm possibly too late to the party?), as other approaches are increasing in mind-share.

@StuartJordan I kinda like the netplan approach (ducks for cover)