make

When most people hear about make they think of compiling source code. While that is often what it’s used for, there are other good uses as well. Here’s an example of using it with Terraform/Ansible to build your infrastructure. Make has some advantages over just using a shell script. One is the native concept of dependencies. You can easily define which targets are dependencies of other targets. Make also has some idempotence baked in (as long as everything isn’t a phony target)....