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Literate Devops with Emacs

Howard Abrams · Sep 1, 2015 · 28m 36s

What this video covers

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 it surfaced in Hacker News

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

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Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

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

“Howard Abrams literate devops is an interesting example of what org-mode code blocks can do.”

“Check out this literate devops video”

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