Nevertheless, there is the one hidden advantage of this approach: You learn new things while trying to automate everything. Remember, that it is the journey that is important, not the destination ;)
I just straight up gave up trying to automate renewing my wildcard certificate from Letsencrypt after who knows how many weekends. Typing a single command won't kill me lol
That's the easy part, the hard part was getting the acme-dns authentication to work since you can't use the regular automated update with a wildcard certificate.
What exactly are you having trouble with? I've automated all of our LetsEncrypt renewal stuff at work, including certs for wildcard domains, and it's using the DNS plugin.
Honestly I've sunk so much time into this that I never want to think about it again if I can just run a shell script once every 3 months haha. I never understood the process too well.
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grue@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 3y
relevant xkcd
vilcans@programming.dev · 9 pts · 3y
Also relevant xkcd
Adda@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 3y
Nevertheless, there is the one hidden advantage of this approach: You learn new things while trying to automate everything. Remember, that it is the journey that is important, not the destination ;)
Luvon@beehaw.org · 12 pts · 3y
And don’t forget the 10 hours to adapt it to a more generic workflow when you need to do something similar 3 weeks later
yote_zip@pawb.social · 12 pts · 3y
Sometimes you've got time now and you don't know if you will later. My folder full of messy scripts are an investment for the future! Any day now...
withersailor@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 3y
I'm feeling targeted.
Golfindriel@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
This is the way.
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 3y
When you automate something and then never use it again.
z500@startrek.website · 8 pts · 3y
I just straight up gave up trying to automate renewing my wildcard certificate from Letsencrypt after who knows how many weekends. Typing a single command won't kill me lol
Kawaiikurai@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 3y
Sounds like you can schedule that command with crontab then
z500@startrek.website · 3 pts · 3y
That's the easy part, the hard part was getting the acme-dns authentication to work since you can't use the regular automated update with a wildcard certificate.
tool@r.rosettast0ned.com · 5 pts · 3y
What exactly are you having trouble with? I've automated all of our LetsEncrypt renewal stuff at work, including certs for wildcard domains, and it's using the DNS plugin.
z500@startrek.website · 1 pts · 3y
Honestly I've sunk so much time into this that I never want to think about it again if I can just run a shell script once every 3 months haha. I never understood the process too well.
tool@r.rosettast0ned.com · 2 pts · 3y
Ok, well, let me know if you want some help with it in the future, because I've done it an uncountable number of times.
z500@startrek.website · 0 pts · 3y
Thanks, I appreciate that. My cert is expiring in a few weeks, maybe I'll take another crack at it.
tool@r.rosettast0ned.com · 1 pts · 3y
Ok, let me know if you want help.
forkspez@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
tool@r.rosettast0ned.com · 6 pts · 3y
I was not prepared to look into a mirror when I opened this post...
tappyturtle@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3y
And then spending an hour fiddling with my crontab
forkspez@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
freakrho@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y
i automate things so i have more free time for my hobby: automating things
jcat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
My husband will not admit it but this is him
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
The one thing that i will avoid at any cost is math, i would rather write a program to do it for me
eruchitanda@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I see myself in this picture and I don't like it.