Also relevant xkcd
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 ;)
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…
When you automate something and then never use it again.
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
This is the way.
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
Sounds like you can schedule that command with crontab then
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.
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.
Thanks, I appreciate that. My cert is expiring in a few weeks, maybe I’ll take another crack at it.
Ok, let me know if you want help.
I’m feeling targeted.
I was not prepared to look into a mirror when I opened this post…
Totally worth it, every time.
And then spending an hour fiddling with my crontab
Every hour LOL?
i automate things so i have more free time for my hobby: automating things
My husband will not admit it but this is him
The one thing that i will avoid at any cost is math, i would rather write a program to do it for me
