I had been trying to find a good way to manage my dotfiles for years. I tried having my $HOME be a git working directory. That worked well, but not really for keeping multiple systems in sync. I looked at stow but I didn’t reall like the way it worked. Then I found chezmoi. And it’s perfect!

The Basics

Chezmoi, stores its configuration in the source directory. On Linux/BSD, the default location is ~/.local/share/chezmoi. To get started, you’d run:

I find myself in the position to find a new job. I have been working as a contractor at the FDA for the last 6 1/2 years. Working with the Cybersecurity program as a Principal Splunk Engineer has been extremely rewarding and such an incredible learning experience. I had fun toys to play with and an endless amount of technology to learn about.

I would like to continue doing DevOps work employing the things I’m really good at: