No, not 30 minutes. For the first time I spent couple of weeks just for reading documentation and experiments. It was about 8 years ago IIRC. But since that time when I need something more complex than install a package or copy a file, I feel myself like a 30-minutes user because it does not work as I expect.
No, I can’t. I use it only occasionally, so I don’t remember everything. But many times configurations didn’t work as described in documentation and I had to find a different way to achieve a required result. Sometimes this behavior changed from release to release. This thing doesn’t seem something that I can rely on. But we use it in our company many years, so switch to another tool would be painful.
You will need many iterations of trial and error. No way.
You can speed up testing your playbook by using Molecule or something similar. Don’t touch your working VMs until you get a service (role) set up correctly in your test environment. If you need to set up multiple services in a single VM, you can automate their deployment sequentially, of course.
P. S. I don’t like Ansible and won’t recommend it because it is full of bugs and non-obvious behavior. However I didn’t investigate alternatives and can’t suggest a better one.
Full code audit is very time consuming. It’s impossible to audit all software someone uses. However if I know nothing about project, I do a short look at the code to understand if it follows best practices or not and make some assumptions about the code quality. The problem is that I can’t do this if I’m unfamiliar with the programming language the project is written in, so in most cases I try to avoid such projects.
Piracy is terrible, but there are very few places in the world where it still exists, like Somali.
Just checked one more time that emails from my server are accepted by Gmail. What am I doing wrong?
the list of the daemons running in docker-mailserver
Awful. Who heeds both rspamd and spamassassin simultaneously? fetchmail and getmail6? More than a half of these components are not required to get a working mail server. But I agree that setting up the another half is rather complicated. So I’m planning to give a try to mox when I’ll need to set up a new mail server.
Yes, you select projects that you participate in by yourself.
You may install BOINC and contribute to scientific computations.
How could so many operators coordinate and then disappear? Seems that there were no Ukrainians nearby. FPV operating via Internet would be impossible due to lags and unstable signal.