ansible-like tool with a smaller scope, focused primarily on complementing dotfiles for cross-machine bliss
inspired by ansible,
with jobs defined in a declarative file format
will focus on the dotfiles use-case: maintaining the same user preferences across machines, or restoring user preferences to a fresh machine
no remote or fleet functionality / complexity
not aiming to do anything that requires root / Administrator permissions (yet)
named after the reality-bending ability in Dark City
my dotfiles started as a whole bunch of shell-scripts, but didn't have any support for Windows,
I'd partially moved to my second attempt, which is cross-platform, but required too much work for new jobs
other existing tools use interpretted languages, which are fine for web services that run in containers, but can be overly-sensitive to interpreter versions and globally-installed packages
import or include to help decompose large config files