One toolkit, every project
Every project had its own deployment script. islet had deploy_pi.sh. gwefan had a bespoke scp chain. ira had nothing. Each script did roughly the same thing — build, upload, restart — but each did it differently enough that copying between projects meant editing half the lines. On Saturday, all three projects switched to a single shared toolkit. The duplication problem islet’s deploy script was the most mature. It rsynced Python source and config files to the Pi, restarted two systemd services, ran a smoke test against the health endpoint, and printed a status summary. It worked well. It had also been rewritten twice as the project grew, and the third version was 80 lines of bash that nobody would want to port to another project. ...