I've been using Salt mainly for local environment configuration - dotfile and config management. After almost 5 years of use I started to notice that Arch Linux Salt package is becoming less and less stable. I assume that the cause was overall project complexity resulted in higher maintenance burden.

Manual install becomes boring after a while. Especially when creating multiple virtual machines.

Sometimes you just have to change some things, even if they work correctly.

When I was thinking about reading web articles, there were few things that I considered crucial to have a good experience.

Getting sweet HTTP/2 support with TLS encryption and ALPN on nginx involves compiling nginx version above 1.9.5 with OpenSSL version above 1.0.2.

OpenSSL with required version will be available in Centos from version 7.4, but we want it now.