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Literate Devops with Emacs

Howard Abrams · 8 HN recommendations

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Howard Abrams demonstrates, in an EmacsConf 2015 talk, how he uses org-mode's Babel and Tramp to configure and operate remote servers from a single document. Code blocks, their results and the explanatory text all live together.

Why HN recommends it: HN people point to it as the best demonstration of literate devops, showing documentation and execution woven together in Emacs.

“His video on literate programming for DevOps via Emacs' Org-mode was very impressive and inspiring to me. It's my favorite.” Read on HN ↗