I'm automating bits and pieces and trying to be both centralized and more streamlined, but I'm still feeling my way a bit. I've written code to spin up VMs and instances, used Ansible to do moderately complex deploys, but now I want to get something similar going with my dev enviornment and the labs I'm building. I'm also reminding myself about being flexible, so I don't have to be perfect the first time, but rather have something that makes sense to start and iteratively improve it. I'm also going to version control it from early on, so I can not worry about config issues too much as I can always revert back to a previous version.