fup

A simple-minded workstation initializer.

Why?

One advantage over using established configuration management tools for the same purpose is that you don't need to worry about installing packages or ensuring that SSH access works correctly. On a pristine installation you can use a static fup binary which only operates on the local host.

How?

Just point to a config file (default ~/.config/fup/fup.yml, override with -f, --file, can be a remote URL).

There is a config file with a non-zero number of comments under contrib/simple.yml.

Better Alternatives?

https://github.com/comtrya/comtrya, of course.