https://krash.dev/tags/automation/Recent content in Automation on krash.devHugoen-usFri, 14 Aug 2026 08:29:09 +0530https://krash.dev/posts/writing-production-grade-bash-script/Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://krash.dev/posts/writing-production-grade-bash-script/<p>Most shell scripts start innocent, just a few lines to glue things together. Blink twice, and it’s deploying infrastructure, rotating secrets, restarting servers, and possibly provisioning a small nation-state. It’s doing things for the people, by the people, held together by <code>echo</code>.</p> <p>This isn’t another “bash scripting 101” tutorial. You already know how to loop over a list and grep things. This is about writing scripts that survive real-world conditions: bad input, missing dependencies, flaky networks, and humans.</p>