Your go-to tools for automating sysadmin or deployment tasks?

[dimwitteddominate]

Curious what tools you all are using these days for automating repetitive tasks across servers. I’m talking config changes, patching, user provisioning, scheduled jobs, all that good stuff.


Do you just script with Bash or PowerShell? Or are you using something more structured like Ansible, Terraform, or custom bots?

 

[doubtalike]

Depends on the setup, but I’ve been using a mix of tools lately:

Ansible and Puppet for config management
Attune for orchestrating multi-node scripts (super helpful for handling Windows & Linux together)
PowerShell ISE for quick ad-hoc Windows admin stuff
Sometimes Terraform for infra provisioning

Even cron jobs with custom logging for simpler routines