Neckbeard – a DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent
32 points by bealesh 3 hours ago | 17 comments
manlymuppet 8 minutes ago
The real Gilfoyle would self-host.
replybealesh 4 minutes ago
do as neckbeard says, not as neckbeard does.
replycousinbryce 55 minutes ago
Can this be used with the ponytail skill? https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main
replyhangrybear666 47 minutes ago
It does sound cool and as an infra nerd myself it reads sensible, I just don't see why I would want another abstraction layer between my cloud deployments being rolled out and the tf/hcl files that I maintain. Why would I want to install another interface between me, the planfile and the running environment? Genuine question
replybealesh 39 minutes ago
It’s opinionated and built around a reference architecture- think it kind of like using rails or phoenix instead of just writing ruby or elixir. LLM’s are fantastic syntax generators, but they have no real opinions on architecture or finops.
replyhangrybear666 10 minutes ago
Oh so more an orchestration interface with sane defaults for an LLM to use as a reference when implementing deployment changes, especially new rollouts?
It seems to be aimed at small to medium sized cloud deployments and more as a starting point to get customers up and running?
replyBecause I'm already administratrating a large AWS environment and the networking, especially as regards route tables, transit gateways, DMZs and extensive security group rules managed in multiple distinct layers across teams (and don't even get me started on IAM and Active Directory Forest) don't seem to fit into the abstraction layer I'm seeing.
bealesh 6 minutes ago
Exactly - and it's pretty much aimed at 'built this cool TS app on vercel and supabase and want to scale it' or the like. I build my career migrating rails apps off heroku, and this is kind of inspired by a lot of what I learned.
replyAre you using IaC to administer all of this or just handjamming in the console? I'd love to expand neckbeard to handle more complex enterprise motions - the landing zone scenario your speaking of is particularly an interesting use case, I'll start thinking on it!
Stitch4223 38 minutes ago
Sometimes the name of a product makes me want to use it, even if I don’t have uses for it. This is such a name, I just keep on grinning.
replybealesh 24 minutes ago
This makes my day - I genuinely love naming things, as an artist and a technologist it's fun to inject some creativity into the code!
replymanlymuppet 7 minutes ago
I have the opposite feeling about CoackroachDB. Great database, but man, what a terrible name.
replyjanwirth 2 hours ago
Why not opentofu and ansible? Version and run it. I don’t see why i need this.
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