how do you manage your server?

I usually connect with my server via ssh in a terminal and run basic commands. What’s a better, more efficient and modern way of doing that? Especially considering ai and documentation along the way? I wonder if there’s a better approach than “connect from remote and act local”. Is there a method to “code local and push to remote”?

I use a fedora server with podman, caddyfile and vi.

Ansible is one way to “code local, push to remote(s)”. Can define so-called playbooks, which is basically just a script, to do reoccuring tasks like e.g. updates.

Ansible is great, I just wish it would automatically cleanup when I remove parts of the config. I know it’s not the goal, but I dream about a tool that works this way

We fixed that with roles that manage both install and uninstall

That works but that’s only useful if you have many machines. I have a single server so it’s the same burden as doing it manually. If only the uninstall step could be completely automated by just reverting the install step